The shooting occurred at Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, just a few miles away from Santana High School in Santee, where two people died in a March 5 shooting. Authorities said Hoffman shot three students and two teachers as they were returning to class from a lunch period. A school resource officer and sheriff's deputy investigating another unrelated incident heard the shots and confronted Hoffman.
Police say the suspect fired at the officers and missed, hitting a police car.
However, the officers didn't and Hoffman was taken to Sharp Memorial Hospital with bullet wounds to his face and buttocks. After having surgery, hospital officials said he is in stable condition. Bill McClure said the suspect had not made a statement and that authorities had no clues about a possible motive. Hospital officials said the five suffered pellet wound injuries that were not life-threatening. Several other people, hospital and police officials said, suffered injuries from flying glass or complained of chest pains or shortness of breath from the stress of the shooting.