MATTOON, Ill.- According to a statement released this afternoon by Mattoon High School officials, they learned of an active student shooter on campus just after 11:30 a.m. today. 

School resource officers and faculty went to the cafeteria, where they heard shots fired. A teacher disarmed and apprehended a male student who shot and wounded another student in a high school cafeteria. Officials said the injured student is in stable condition at a local hospital.

School officials say first responders arrived on scene, secured the high school, and transported the injured student to the hospital.  

Following a brief lockdown, faculty and students evacuated the building, with students being transported to Riddle Elementary School to be released to their parents.

The Mattoon Journal-Gazette reports that police were clearing the high school room by room. Students were being bused to a nearby school to be picked up.

The names and ages of the suspect and the student who was shot weren’t immediately released.

School officials say their buildings were on a soft lockdown as a precaution.