BENTON, Ky. (AP/CLARKSVILLENOW) — Gov. Matt Bevin Two students were killed Tuesday morning at Marshall County High School when a 15-year-old classmate opened fire.

19 people were injured, 12 of them suffering gunshot wounds.

Kentucky State Police Commissioner Richard Sanders says the suspect was armed with a handgun.

Sanders says one girl died at the scene Tuesday morning at Marshall County High School. A boy died at a hospital. The shooting began at 7:57 a.m.

Sanders says the FBI and the ATF have joined the investigation.

The 15-year-old male student has been taken into custody and will be charged with murder and attempted murder in the shooting.

The county attorney says he will ask for the teen to be tried as an adult.

Marshall County Attorney Jeff Edwards said Tuesday that the case will begin in juvenile court but he will request that a judge move it to adult court. Juvenile court is closed to the public and the records sealed under Kentucky law.

Once the case is in adult court, it will be presented to a grand jury. If the jury chooses to indict, the charges will move to Circuit Court and the details, including the accused teen’s identity, will no longer be secret.

The teen is being held at a regional juvenile jail in Paducah, Kentucky, about a half-hour away in the western part of the state.

An official at Vanderbilt University Medical Center says five people were brought there after the shooting.

Oscar Guillamondegui is medical director of trauma at the Nashville hospital and says they treated five males whose ages ranged from 15 to 18. He says one of them, who suffered a gunshot wound to the head, has died.

Kentucky State Police (KSP) Detective Jody Cash says the suspected shooter was apprehended by a Marshall County deputy.

Cash says authorities have no reason to think there are any other suspects in the fatal shooting.

Meanwhile, a soccer coach at the school says all of her players are safe. Savana Smothers is the assistant girls’ soccer coach for Marshall County High School. She told The Associated Press in a Facebook message: “You just never think this will happen in a small town like ours.”

WPSD-TV reports the high school students are being bused to a middle school where parents can pick up them up.

The FBI says it’s working with state and local law enforcement in responding to the shooting.

Gov. Bevin is calling the fatal shooting “a tremendous tragedy” and is calling for people to avoid speculating at this time. Bevin says it’s unbelievable that the shooting would happen in such a small, close-knit community like Marshall County.

A business owner says he saw nearly 100 students running out the school seeking safety.

Mitchell Garland says he rushed outside of his business near Marshall County High School when he heard about the shooting Tuesday morning. He says the students were running, crying and screaming.

Garland says his own son, a 16-year-old sophomore, jumped into someone’s car and sped away, then made his way to his dad’s office.

The area’s congressman, Republican U.S. Rep. James Comer, is calling the shooting a “senseless and evil attack” that “horrifies us all.”

The community is about 85 miles northwest of Clarksville.