Officer kills young attacker at high school in Fresno, CA.

A Fresno police officer who works at Roosevelt High School shot and killed a boy today who struck him in the back of the head with a baseball bat.

The incident occurred at 11:54 a.m. on the east side of Roosevelt High School campus near the basketball courts.

The school remained on lockdown until further notice as of 1:10 p.m., said a message over the school's intercom.

The officer, who was identified by students as Junus Perry, is employed by the police department as the school's resource officer, students said. Gardy Zuniga, 18, a senior at Roosevelt High, said her mother, resource teacher Adela Haro, watched the scene unfold from 10 feet away.

"She was walking her students back to class when she saw a boy push the officer and the officer shot the boy and the boy died at the scene," Zuniga said, retelling her mother's story. Zuniga said the boy had been in trouble recently. She said the boy was also armed with a gun.

Darius Bigby, 17, a Roosevelt senior, said a girl accompanying the boy had a baseball bat.

"When I heard the shooting I ran," Bigby said while waiting off campus.

Parents began arriving at the school shortly after noon.

One mother, Helen Mata, said her daughter, Racquel, said she did not see the shooting but called her mother.

"She said 'I'm OK, but come and get me," Helen Mata said.

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