Police shoot and kill armed eighth-grader at Texas school

(CBS/AP) BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Police shot and killed an armed 15-year-old student Wednesday at a junior high school in South Texas.

Brownsville police Detective J.J. Trevino says police received a call around 8 a.m. claiming there was an individual with a weapon at Cummings Junior High School. Police say they found the student with a handgun in a hallway.

According to CBS affiliate KENS, police say officers shot the student after he pointed a gun at them.

"The individual confronted the officers, at which time they had to shoot him," Trevino said.

Cameron County Justice of the Peace Kip V. Johnson Hodge told The Brownsville Herald the student died.

The shooting remains under investigation. The dead student was an 8th-grader at the school.

Trevino says the school was immediately placed on lockdown and no one else was injured. Trevino said he had no information on why the student had the gun.

Brownsville is 280 miles south of San Antonio on the southern tip of Texas.