One officer was shot when two gunmen with a long rifle opened fire in Jersey City, N.J., on Tuesday afternoon, according to two officials.

The shooting took place on Martin Luther King Drive near Bayview Avenue, according to local media.

Two suspects were barricaded in a convenience store, the officials said

One officer was being taken to a nearby hospital.

Loud gunfire could still be heard near the shooting scene, in Jersey City’s Greenville neighborhood, just before 2 p.m., according to news reports and social media posts from local journalists.

Sacred Heart School, a Catholic elementary school across from the scene of the shooting, was placed on lockdown, a worker at the school said. The students there had not been harmed.

“The situation is outside and it’s ongoing,” the worker said.

Multiple law enforcement agencies were responding to the scene, including the F.B.I. and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

A spokesman for the A.T.F. said the agency was treating the incident as an “active shooter” situation as of 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday.

New Jersey Transit said it was suspending bus service and Hudson-Bergen Light Rail service as officers continued to respond.

Twelve public schools in the vicinity of the shooting were shut down and on lockdown, according to the superintendent of Jersey City Public Schools, Frank Walker.

Mr. Walker said he was told that gunfire broke out around 12:30 p.m. He and his staff were communicating with police officers, who were still responding to the shooting, he said.

Schools in neighboring Bayonne, N.J., were ordered to shelter in place as a result of the police activity.

Sharon Otterman and Ed Shanahan contributed reporting.

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