HILLSBOROUGH — A day after a shooting at Orange High School, Orange County school officials are trying to “keep the day as normal as possible” for the students, said the district spokeswoman.

The school has a crisis team standing by, said spokeswoman Anne D’Annunzio. Principal Jeff Dishmon brought faculty together this morning to brief them about caring for the students during the day, she said.

“He emphasized to faculty this morning to pay attention to the kids, to see if they need extra help,” D’Annunzio said. And Dishmon directed staff to ask for extra aid from school counselors if they need it, she said. “We’re trying to keep kids in the high school learning and [let them] have a normal high school day,” she added.

Alvaro Rafael Castillo, the trench coat-clad 19-year-old who was arrested Wednesday for shooting at Orange High School, was a 2005 graduate of the school, D’Annunzio said this morning. He first enrolled in 2001, she said.

Castillo was also charged with first degree murder in connection with the death of his father, Rafael Huezo Castillo. He appeared in District Court this morning.

At about 1 p.m. Wednesday, an armed man drove through the open gates of Orange High School in a gray minivan and fired approximately eight gunshots at the school, D’Annunzio has said.

Two students were injured, neither seriously. Senior Tiffaney Utsman’s right shoulder was grazed by a bullet. Andrew Hunt was a student hurt by broken glass, D’Annunzio said.

Utsman had been released from a hospital by Wednesday evening, said her mother Champe Revis.

D’Annunzio said a school resource officer and a drivers education teacher apprehended Castillo in the parking lot. It was confirmed London Ivey, an Orange County Sheriff's deputy assigned to the school, was the officer, but school officials have not yet released the teacher’s name.

Ivey is the school’s only resource officer, D’Annunzio said. The drivers education teacher is a former highway patrolman, she said.

Today, the school day started as usual at Orange High School. Parents dropped off their children at the front of the building.

The teens, sporting their bookbags, walked into the school and joined their groups of friends standing in the front lobby. Several clusters of students stood around the wide lobby, chatting, looking out the windows and waiting for their first period to start.

Administrators were walking around with walkie talkies and making sure things ran smoothly.

An Orange County Sheriff’s car was parked on a little trail across from nearby C.W. Stanford Middle School, and one was parked in the front parking lot of Orange High.