Two elementary school children and teacher shot in South Carolina—suspect in custody

Two students and a teacher were shot and wounded after a teenager allegedly opened fire in South Carolina on Wednesday afternoon. Reuters reports:

The shooting happened early in the afternoon at Townville Elementary School in Anderson County, located near the Georgia state line about 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Atlanta.

The circumstances of the shooting are not known but a dead body was found on a dirt road near the school, the local coroner told CBS News.

The injured were taken/airlifted to a medical facility. About 280 students attend the school.

The United States has long been plagued by shootings at schools and colleges, some of which have claimed dozens of lives. In 2012, a gunman shot dead 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The deadliest mass school shooting was in 2007, when a gunman killed 32 people at Virginia Tech University.