Indiana High School Student Charged In Shooting At Public Library

An Indiana high school student is facing charges for allegedly shooting at employees of a public library before he was subdued by a patron until law enforcement arrived, officials said.

Just before noon on Wednesday, a 911 caller reported an active shooter at the Jackson County Public Library branch at 303 W 2nd Street in Seymour. The Seymour Police Department, Jackson County Sheriffs Office, Indiana State Police, and Indiana Excise Police responded to the scene, and officers “surged” into the library “within moments” of the 911 dispatch, Seymour Police said in a statement.

Law enforcement arrived to find a patron had tackled and subdued the suspect on the second floor of the library. Emiliano Cuevas-Bravo, 18, was immediately taken into custody.

Investigators from the Seymour Police Department, Indiana State Police and the FBI Indianapolis Field Office determined that Cuevas-Bravo, a Seymour High School student, had initially gone to the school that morning to “target” a Seymour Police Department School Resource Officer. He never entered the school or made contact with the officer, ultimately leaving to go to the library.

Upon entering the library, Cuevas-Bravo allegedly fired one shot from a long gun toward two nearby employees, one of whom sustained non-life-threatening injuries. He then went to the second floor where he was subdued until officers arrived.

Seymour police said “an item of concern” was found near Cuevas-Bravo in the library, and the FBIs Explosive Disposal Unit responded along with state police special operations and the nearby Columbus Police Department, and “conducted operations on the concerned item.”

A search of Cuevas-Bravo’s vehicle revealed “numerous items of evidentiary value,” police said.

Cuevas-Bravo was arrested and booked into the Jackson County Jail on preliminary charges of two counts of attempted murder, one count of criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon and one count of intimidation.

The investigation remains ongoing, and local police said that although it appears Cuevas-Bravo acted alone, additional officers would be stationed at Seymour Community Schools “out of an abundance of caution.”