Frederick High and West Frederick Middle schools reopened Friday after the incident earlier this week in which a shooting took place on the Frederick High School campus outside the gym.
Two students were wounded in the Wednesday night incident, which took place during a junior varsity basketball game between Frederick and Gov. Thomas Johnson High students.
Frederick County Public Schools officials said on the system's website Friday that support is available for students who wish to speak to counselors.
Meanwhile the police investigation into the incident is continuing. On Thursday more than a dozen police academy cadets searched a high school athletic field, eyes trained on the frozen ground for signs of a getaway path possibly used by suspects who shot and wounded two students outside a gymnasium where two basketball games were in progress.
Police were considering gang violence and the rivalry with crosstown opponent Gov. Thomas Johnson High as possible motives for the Wednesday night shooting. Investigators believe the victims and assailants knew each other, Frederick Police Sgt. Aaron Lapp said in a statement Thursday evening.
They also were looking into reports from students who said they saw four to five males — dressed in big coats and hands in their pockets — walk into the gymnasium during the game and leave shortly before shots were fired, Capt. Richard Hetherington said.
Investigators believe the culprits fled on foot, he said.
Police also obtained school surveillance video and planned to re-interview the victims, he said.
The shooting left the two male students with injuries that were not life-threatening, and sent spectators running for cover as frantic parents rushed to the scene to make sure their children were OK. The wounded students are 14 and 15, said Denise Pouget, chief of Frederick County Fire and Rescue Services. She said one was shot in a leg, and the other was hit in the back. Lapp said they were flown to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.