Texas Parents Rush School During False School Shooting Report

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Alarmed mother and father converged on a Texas highschool Tuesday after a classroom capturing report that finally proved to be false.

The siege at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio started about 1 p.m. Tuesday after police obtained a name of a attainable capturing in progress on the faculty, in response to a police statement. The faculty was positioned on lockdown as police entered and started clearing the campus however discovered no proof of an lively risk or capturing.

“Our department and San Antonio Police Department established there was no shooting, but then we had to do a methodical search room by room with our strike teams,” stated Chief Johnny Reyes of the San Antonio Independent School District police. “We went to the place where they said the shooting had occurred and we were able to quickly establish that no shooting had happened.”

Instead, some college students had been discovered to have had an altercation, however they denied having or displaying a weapon at any level, Reyes stated.

But frightened college students already had made alarming phone calls to their mother and father, who descended en masse on the varsity the place 29 faculty district officers and 58 metropolis law enforcement officials had been available.

One man shoved his fist by way of a window in an effort to achieve entry to the varsity, lacerating his arm. Police utilized a tourniquet to that arm. Others had been handcuffed and detained after bodily fighting officers, however there have been no rapid stories of arrests.

The scare was the most recent in a wave of such incidents because the May 24 mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary faculty that killed 19 youngsters and two lecturers. The same panic occurred at Heights High School in Houston on Sept. 13 after the school received a threat. Threats final week additionally prompted faculty shutdowns at districts near Austin and Houston and in California, Massachusetts, Florida, Arkansas, Oregon, Illinois, Kansas and Oklahoma.

San Antonio district Superintendent Jaime Aquino stated the district wanted to search out higher methods to speak with mother and father in actual time. “I’m assuming that if we had not had Uvalde, perhaps we would not have the reaction of the parents. So we just have to understand that,” he stated.