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Parents described children hiding in closets, afraid to use cell phones, and one middle schooler said his class initially fled the school gym on in-line skates.Law enforcement personnel respond to a report of a person armed with a rifle at Mount Horeb Middle School in Mount Horeb, Wis., May 1, 2024.
Authorities also did not say how many officers had fired weapons and whether they were met with gunfire. The district used Facebook posts throughout the day to give updates, with the earliest coming around 11:30 a.m. and reporting that all district schools were on lockdown. Authorities in Mount Horeb said without giving details that the “alleged assailant” was harmed, and witnesses described hearing gunshots and seeing dozens of children running.
Earlier, the district posted that “the threat has been neutralized outside of the building” but didn't elaborate on what had happened at the school in Mount Horeb, some 25 miles west of the state capital of Madison. One middle schooler said his class was in the school gym practicing in-line skating when they heard gunshots.
The district had begun releasing some students of other schools by early afternoon and anxious parents gathered at a bus depot waiting for their kids.
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