Shooting Scare At Redwood City High School Prompts SWAT Team Response, Evacuations
REDWOOD CITY (KCBS) -- Police have lifted an evacuation at Summit Preparatory Charter High School in Redwood City Monday morning after a student reported hearing gunfire believed to be from a nail gun at a construction site nearby.
The school was evacuated shortly around 10 a.m. after a 911 call came in, police said. A student reportedly heard a popping sound while in the bathroom then ran to a teacher who initiated a code red lock down protocol.
Police arrived on scene and began evacuating the school one classroom at a time. No active shooter was found during their search.
The School has sent an email alert to parents that all students have been accounted for and are safe. Parents have been asked not to come to the school to pick them up, but that students will be sent back to class and then sent home.
Diane Tavenner, Summit Schools founder and CEO, said it could have been the sound of a nail gun from a nearby business or the popping of balloons that were in a classroom that initially alarmed the student.
"There is no emergency. Essentially this has been an emergency drill at this point," she said.
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Cindra Borg, who owns nearby Borg's Gear, said children were being taken out with their hands in air about 10 at a time.
She also said someone was detained and was in the back of a police car. It is not clear if that person was a student. In addition, a witness said they saw someone taken out on a stretcher by medical responders. Tavenner said it was a student with a previous injury who began to hyper-ventilate during the incident and that she had been released and returned to the school.
The incident resulted in the closure of Broadway between Woodside Road and Mills Way and Charter Street from Bay to Broadway, according to the San Mateo County Office of Emergency Services.
Southbound Broadway and Charter Street was expected to reopen shortly after noon.
