Update 1:30 p.m. Monday
Officer Wissink received a warm reception from students and staff as his police escort took him past Oshkosh West High School this afternoon.
Update: 12:44 p.m. Monday
NBC26 reports that Officer Wissink is being released from the hospital today, and that a police escort will be provided for him by officers from throughout the Fox Valley region.
Update: 11:42 a.m. Wednesday
The officer involved in the shooting has been identified by the Wisconsin Department of Justice as School Resource Officer Michael Wissink.
He has been with the Oshkosh Police Department for 21 years and has worked as an SRO since 2017.
Update: 1:12 p.m. Tuesday
Oshkosh Police Chief Dean Smith said that the 16-year-old student involved in the altercation at Oshkosh West High School had a weapon and stabbed a school resource officer.
The officer then shot and injured the student with one bullet, according to Chief Smith. He believes both the student and officer should survive their injuries.
Many of the other 75 officers on scene then helped clear the school, with the site declared safe slightly more than two hours afterward.
Chief Smith said that reunification of parents and students should be complete by 2 p.m. 1,700 students attend Oshkosh West.
School will be canceled for all Oshkosh public schools on Wednesday.
Update: 1:01 p.m.
Watch a news conference from Oshkosh Police.
Update: 11:46 a.m.
Police tell WBAY-TV in Green Bay that an officer at Oshkosh West High School shot the armed student.
Update: 11:30 a.m.
From the Associated Press:
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul says shootings at two high schools in the state in two days shows the need to invest in services to help troubled students and to limit their access to guns.
The state Department of Criminal Investigations is leading the probe into a shooting Tuesday at a school in Oshkosh that left a student and the police officer who confronted him injured. It comes a day after a police officer shot an armed male student in a classroom at a Milwaukee-area high school.
Kaul, a Democrat, says his department’s office of school safety will work with both districts on how to prevent future acts of violence. Kaul says the key is identifying problems before they happen and getting students the mental health or social work assistance that they need.
Kaul supports a pair of bills blocked by the Republican Legislature to institute universal gun background checks and give judges the power to take firearms from people determined to be a risk.
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The mother of two boys who attend a Wisconsin high school where a shooting took place says it is a parent’s worst nightmare.
Stephanie Carlin, who is also a school board member at Oshkosh West High School, told The Associated Press Tuesday that one of her sons texted her to say, “it was crazy,” but that both of them are safe.
Police in Oshkosh say a police officer and an armed student whom he confronted at the school were both wounded in the confrontation Tuesday morning.
Carlin says “it’s terrifying” as a parent when something like this takes place.
School board president Barbara Herzog has not responded to a phone call seeking comment.
Update: 11:08 a.m.
Oshkosh Police say that an outside investigation bureau will be on scene to take part in looking into what happened at Oskhosh West.
Update: 10:42 a.m.
WBAY-TV in Green Bay shared this update from Oshkosh Police, one which reiterated the points police made in their Facebook post below. They did not expand much beyond that post.
Update: 10:08 a.m.
Watch a live feed from the scene, provided by WBAY-TV in Green Bay.
Original story
A report says that both a student and school resource officer have been injured in the second officer-involved shooting at a Wisconsin high school in two days.
The incident happened Tuesday morning at Oshkosh High School, one day after the shooting at Waukesha South High School.
The following statement came from Oshkosh Police minutes ago.