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20-02-2008, 04:31 PM
Ky. school on lockdown during gun search (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-02-20-school-lockdown_N.htm)
Posted 42m ago
The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal
LOUISVILLE — Police are searching Fern Creek High School looking for a man that one student said could be carrying a weapon, according to officials.
As a result, students are being kept in their classrooms and the school has been placed on lock down, with no adults being allowed into the building, according to Jefferson County Public Schools spokeswoman Lauren Roberts.
The call came in to police are 8 a.m. No shots have been fired, and no one has been hurt.
Police are searching room by room through the school and interviewing witnesses to find out exactly what they saw, said Officer Phil Russell, a spokesman for Louisville Metro Police.
"We are taking prudent measures for the sake of safety, but nothing has been substantiated yet about a gun actually being in the school," Russell said.
FIND MORE STORIES IN: Jefferson County Public Schools | Louisville Metro Police
Police are asking parents to stay away from the scene and being told to go to Fern Creek Baptist Church, 5920 Bardstown Road.
Buses to Fern Creek Elementary are being diverted to a nearby grocery store parking lot. The elementary school, which starts classes at 9:05 a.m., is on the same campus as the high school, and parents are not being allowed to drop off their children.
Posted 42m ago
The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal
LOUISVILLE — Police are searching Fern Creek High School looking for a man that one student said could be carrying a weapon, according to officials.
As a result, students are being kept in their classrooms and the school has been placed on lock down, with no adults being allowed into the building, according to Jefferson County Public Schools spokeswoman Lauren Roberts.
The call came in to police are 8 a.m. No shots have been fired, and no one has been hurt.
Police are searching room by room through the school and interviewing witnesses to find out exactly what they saw, said Officer Phil Russell, a spokesman for Louisville Metro Police.
"We are taking prudent measures for the sake of safety, but nothing has been substantiated yet about a gun actually being in the school," Russell said.
FIND MORE STORIES IN: Jefferson County Public Schools | Louisville Metro Police
Police are asking parents to stay away from the scene and being told to go to Fern Creek Baptist Church, 5920 Bardstown Road.
Buses to Fern Creek Elementary are being diverted to a nearby grocery store parking lot. The elementary school, which starts classes at 9:05 a.m., is on the same campus as the high school, and parents are not being allowed to drop off their children.