Middle faculty in Redlands locked down for 3 hours after rumor of pupil with gun; none was discovered

A Redlands center faculty was positioned on lockdown Thursday afternoon after rumors {that a} pupil introduced a gun to high school.

Redlands police discovered of a rumor Wednesday, Aug. 21 that some college students deliberate to deliver a gun to Moore Middle School. Officers carried out consensual searches of the scholars’ houses and decided there was no menace, stated Carl Baker, a spokesperson for the Redlands Police Department.

The subsequent day, a lady texted her mom in the course of the faculty day and instructed her college students had been passing a gun round, Baker stated.

A lockdown was carried out round 12:30 p.m.

Officers and police canine searched the college and didn’t discover any firearms, Baker stated.

Police additionally spoke with college students in every classroom, and none of them had seen a gun within the faculty, together with the woman who initially reported it. The woman instructed police that she heard rumors a couple of gun on the faculty, however she hadn’t seen it, Baker stated.

By 3:30 p.m., the lockdown was lifted.