Thurston Excessive in lockdown, different close by faculties positioned beneath lockout because of menace
Thurston Excessive College was positioned on lockdown Friday following a menace made to the college, in response to Springfield Public Colleges.
Regulation enforcement officers had been on web site “as a precaution,” in response to faculty officers, and authorities requested the general public to keep away from the realm.
Moreover, Thurston Center College, Thurston Elementary College and Ridgeview Elementary College had been in a lockout, stated Allison McGowan, a spokesperson for Springfield Public Colleges, shortly after 11 a.m.
In a lockdown, college students and workers keep in safe rooms with locked doorways. A lockout entails securing the constructing perimeter whereas permitting lessons to proceed as regular inside. In each circumstances, nobody is allowed to enter or exit the faculties.
“Please don’t go to the college,” the district stated in a press release. “Nobody can be allowed in or out of the constructing as college students and workers shelter in place. We are going to share data as quickly as it’s obtainable.”
The incident is the most recent in a series of similar threats affecting Eugene-Springfield space faculties this faculty 12 months.
Notably, Thurston Excessive College remains to be marked by a traumatic historical past: In 1998, it was the site of a mass shooting that claimed two scholar lives and left many extra injured.
Police and district officers had been working to evaluate the present menace. District officers stated they might difficulty updates on the scenario as quickly as attainable.
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