LAKELAND, Fla.-
Police were searching for a suspect who shot two sheriff’s deputies Thursday, authorities said.
The Polk County deputies were taken to a hospital following the early afternoon shooting in north Lakeland, sheriff’s spokeswoman Donna Wood said. She didn’t know their conditions.
A hospital spokeswoman referred questions about the deputies to the sheriff’s office.
The shooting occurred near Kathleen High School, which was locked down, Wood said. A woman who would identify herself only as Mrs. Platt said students were locked in their classrooms and were safe.
Television video footage showed armed police with shields searching a wooded area with traffic backed up on nearby Interstate 4 in the town about 35 miles east of Tampa. A law enforcement helicopter flew over the area, and armed officers were seen surrounding a ramshackle building.
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