All Palatka area schools are on lock down after a man shot his girlfriend at the health department.

The health department building is on Kennedy Street off Crill Avenue.

Schools on lockdown include:

  • Oberturf 6th grade Center
  • E. H. Miller School
  • James A. Long Elementary
  • Jenkins Middle
  • Kelley Smith Elementary
  • Mellon Elementary
  • Moseley Elementary
  • Palatka High School
  • Putnam Academy of Arts and Sciences Charter School
  • Putnam Ed High School Charter School

Students will not be released at their normal dismissal times if the lockdown is still in effect, school officials said.

Other schools in Putnam County are on modified lock down at principals' discretion, Putnam school district officials said.

Police officers have been at the scene for about an hour.

The Georgia-Pacific saw and paper mill in Palatka is also on precautionary lockdown because of anunrelated shooting in Clay County.

The suspect in a triple shooting used to work at Georgia-Pacific.

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