2 children, 1 teacher wounded at South Carolina school shooting

Two children and a teacher were wounded on Wednesday in a shooting incident at a South Carolina school, according to local authorities.

The suspected shooter was a teenager and was in custody after shooting the three victims at an elementary school in Townville, South Carolina, according to a spokesman for local county's Emergency Management Department.

According to Anderson County Coroner Greg Shore, the authorities were responding to a death "believed to be related" to the school shooting about 1 ½ miles away.

Shore also said the students do not appear to have life-threatening injuries.

The suspect was quickly apprehended and is being taken into custody on Wednesday, police said at a news conference.

Due to lax gun control measures, past shooting incidents claimed dozens of lives on campus across the country. In 2012, a heavily armed gunman forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and started a shooting rampage, killing 20 children and six adults. He later killed himself.