A Mobile County School Board member says the timing could be right to install metal detectors at high school sporting events.

Board member Reginald Crenshaw, who is also a high school basketball official, said Saturday that he’s seen situations that “can get quite hostile” at high school athletic venues.

“It may get to the point where we put in security at the doors,” said Crenshaw on Saturday, one day after two people were shot following a basketball game on the campus of W.P. Davidson High School in Mobile. “It’s getting to the point where we will have to security in place to check for weapons.”

Asked if he meant metal detectors, Crenshaw said: “They are possible. That’s not the school system’s position, it’s only my opinion. It’s unfortunate, but we may have to move to that.”

Police are releasing few details Saturday morning about a shooting that occurred around 9 p.m. Friday outside the William A. Ryan Gymnasium on Davidson’s campus.

Two people, a 17-year-old and 20-year-old, were shot and injured during an altercation which TV media reports describe as “chaotic.” A Mobile police spokeswoman said Friday night that the injuries weren’t considered life-threatening.

Steven Millhouse, a spokesman with the Mobile Fire-Rescue Department, said the 17-year-old suffered a gunshot wound to his upper right leg.

The shooting occurred after Murphy and Blount high schools played a basketball game at Davidson. The game was moved to Davidson because of ongoing renovations to Murphy’s gym floor.

Murphy High School principal Joe Toomey told AL.com Friday that at least one of the people shot was not a student, but no further details have been provided.

“From my understanding, they were shooting back and forth,” said Crenshaw. “Who is to say they didn’t have the guns when they were in the gym? It’s really sad and I don’t know if it’s current or former students or whatever, but we have to deter that activity from happening.”

Metal detectors, while rare in Alabama high schools, are starting to become a common security measure in the aftermath of last February’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which left 14 students and three staff members dead.

At Birmingham City Schools, officials discussed last year whether a metal detector policy was needed in the after math of a tragic shooing of a 17-year-old senior at Huffman High School.

Metal detectors are increasingly becoming more used at college athletic events. The University of Alabama installed 180 metal detectors last summer at all of the gates leading into Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa. The cost for the equipment was around $982,000.

This story was updated at 11:20 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019, to include additional information from the Mobile Fire-Rescue Department.