Hundreds of anxious parents waited all morning to pick up their children yesterday after a shooting left one student critically injured.

The incident happened at Martinsville West Middle School in Indianapolis in the US just after 7 a.m. Police said a male student shot another male student twice in the abdomen.

The shooting suspect is in custody and the victim, 15-year-old Chance Jackson, underwent surgery at Methodist Hospital. Police recovered the weapon after searching the area for hours. Worried parents gathered outside the school waiting for word on when they could pick up their children.

“I’m worried about my kid. I’m wondering if she’s okay. You wouldn’t know something like this would happen. It’s just scary. You don’t think things like this would happen,” said one mother.

“I’m just kind of a bucket of nerves. He is okay. He called me from someone else’s phone. He was not around at the shooting. He was in another part of the building,” said another parent.

There was some initial confusion about where parents could pick up their children. Police kept the students at the school following the shooting so they could question witnesses. Parents arrived hoping to pick up their students, but had to wait. Many did not want their students to take the bus home.