Two teens shot in middle school shooting near Denvor

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- An unidentified gunman shot and wounded two teenagers at a middle school near Denver, Colo. on Tuesday, authorities said.

The incident was reported at 3:14 p.m. at Deer Creek Middle School in Littleton in the southern suburb of Denver, the Denvor Post said on its Web.

The suspected shooter, an adult male, was arrested, the report quoted Jefferson County Sheriff's Department as saying.

The two wounded juveniles have been transported to a hospital. One victim was shot inside the school, the other outside, but the wounds are not life-threatening although the man was using a "high-powered weapon," said Mark Techmeyer, spokesman for the sheriff's department.

Techmeyer said he did not know if the weapon was a rifle or handgun, though witnesses described it as a rifle.

He said a Jefferson County deputy sheriff was able to apprehend the adult male without firing a shot.

Techmeyer said he did not know the relationship, if any, between the shooter and the two children.

The shooting site was just three miles (4.8 kilometers) from Columbine High School, the site of one of the nation's deadliest school shootings.

On April 20, 1999, two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embarked on a massacre at Columbine High School, killing 12 students and one teacher. They also injured 21 other students directly, and three people were injured while attempting to escape. The pair then committed suicide.