Police shot and killed a student outside a Wisconsin middle school Wednesday after receiving a report of someone with a weapon.
Authorities had previously said an active shooter who never got inside the building was “neutralized” outside Mount Horeb Middle School.middle school Wednesday after receiving a report of someone with a weapon, the state's attorney general said in the first law enforcement briefing on gunshots that sent children fleeing and prompted an hourslong lockdown of local schools.
Police remained on the scene hours afterward while students were kept locked down in buildings late into the afternoon before slowly being released to relatives. “An initial search of the middle school has not yielded additional suspects,” a post around noon said. “As importantly, we have no reports of individuals being harmed, with the exception of the alleged assailant.”
“It was maybe like pow-pow-pow-pow,” Keller told The Associated Press by phone. “I thought it was fireworks. I went outside and saw all the children running ... I probably saw 200 children.” Kelly, shoeless, was reunited with his parents and sat on a hillside with them early Wednesday afternoon waiting for his younger siblings to be released from their own schools.Police in Mount Horeb said they could not provide information in the immediate hours afterward. The Dane County Sheriff's office directed reporters to a staging area but also provided no updates.
Shannon Hurd said Noah texted her saying he loved her and she nearly fell down the stairs at her work as she rushed to the school.Stacy Smith, 42, was at the bank Wednesday when she saw police cars rush by and got a text warning of an active shooter.
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