Ohio School Lockdown Ends After Teen with Pellet Gun Taken Into Custody
A high school in Toledo, Ohio went into temporary lockdown mode on Monday morning after a student with a pellet gun was seen in a hallway on campus. The student has since surrendered and is in police custody.
The 14-year-old student reportedly isolated himself in a school hallway at Scott High School in Toledo on Monday morning before he was taken into custody around 10:45 a.m. The teen was not a live shooter but was in possession of a pellet gun, and he conversed with police negotiators before surrendering to authorities. Before taking him into custody, police reportedly shot the teen in the foot with a round of bean bags, although he was ultimately taken into custody uninjured.
The two classrooms near the hallway where the 14-year-old had barricaded himself were evacuated, and shortly before noon students were allowed to leave campus into their parents' custody after their guardians showed valid photo identification.
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A SWAT team arrived at the school shortly after the 9:30 a.m. 911 call alerting authorities of a gunman on campus, and extra school buses were reportedly dispatched to the school to aid in transporting students away from school grounds. According to ABC News, when police arrived, the male teen suspect reportedly refused to leave the area where he had isolated himself that was near the school's behavioral intervention center.
Taylor Dungjen, a reporter for the local Toledo Blade, tweeted that a Toledo Public Schools spokesperson said that the students were kept safe because the "teachers did exactly what they're supposed to do."
Nolan Rosenkrans, another reporter at the Toledo Blade, tweeted that a lockdown drill was actually planned at Scott High School for later in the day. A staff member at the school reportedly told Rosenkrans that she pulled up to the campus to hear the principal announcing over the loud speakers that the lockdown procedure this morning was not a part of the planned drill.
The school has told local media outlets that it has already begun the process of immediately expelling the 14-year-old student.
