Arrest Made in Shootings Near School

One person is in police custody after a series of reported drive-by shootings forced officials at a nearby northeast Houston high school to put the campus on lockdown.

Despite contrary media reports, only one man was arrested Friday afternoon in connection to at least four reports of random assault rifle shootings near North Forest High School, Houston Police Department Spokesman Kese Smith said.

Although FOX 26 has received the name of the 19-year-old suspect, the charge(s) filed against him have yet to be disclosed. He is being held at the Houston Police Department jail.

North Forest Independent School District police and the Houston Police Department were at the high school campus Friday morning searching for a suspect in the shootings. The lockdown was lifted at 2 p.m., and school was dismissed for the rest of the day.

Police believe that at least one suspect fired an AK-47 into the air at the intersection of Ribbonwood Street and Everglade Drive, two other locations on Ribbonwood Street and one shooting on Caddo Road.

North Forest ISD released a statement on Friday which said that district police had received a call from the Houston Fire Department which said that there had been a shooting down the street from the North Forest High School campus. Houston and district police conducted a lockdown of the school to search for the shooting suspect or to verify that the person or persons were not on campus.