(Radio Iowa) – News about the fatal shooting at the Perry High School Thursday, spread quickly. Students in or just arriving at, the school, messaged their parents when they learned what happened. Kevin Shelley tells K-G-R-A radio he was at his job, working on a garbage truck, when he got a text from his son Zander, a sophomore at Perry High, saying he’d heard shots and was hiding — and hurt.

Shelley said his son was only grazed by a bullet and he was headed to the hospital. School staff were preparing for the first day back from the Winter break, when their routine was shattered by a fire alarm. Lori Meinecke is a teacher at Perry High. She tells K-G-R-A radio she was in the school early on Thursday.

Meinecke says she followed proper procedures, getting herself and others out and away from danger as quickly as possible.