Before Agundez got there, the gunman shot three students and two teachers as they were returning to class from a lunch period, police said. He acted immediately. He got both guns from his family home, police said. No formal charges had been filed as of this morning. Agundez and a sheriff's deputy who was investigating another unrelated incident heard the shots and confronted Hoffman.
Police say the suspect fired at the officers and missed, hitting a police car.
The officers returned fire, and Hoffman was hit in the face and buttocks, police say. He was taken to Sharp Memorial Hospital and after surgery was in stable condition, hospital officials said. Bill McClure said the suspect had not made a statement and that authorities had no clues about a possible motive. Hospital officials said none of the five people wounded suffered major injuries, and only one required surgery for pellet wounds to the chest. 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.