ST. JOHN, Ind. (WLS) — A report of an lively shooter at a St. John, Indiana high school sparked a lockdown and substantial law enforcement reaction Wednesday early morning.

The gun scare commenced when three learners were being in a bathroom and one particular of them listened to what sounded like the racking of a gun, law enforcement reported. They termed 911 who dispatched it as an active shooter get in touch with, prompting the huge police response to the university.

Following doing a extensive search of the school “ground by floor, home by home,” authorities said no photographs were fireplace and no gun was identified.

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“I was just sitting in my 2nd hour and I was composing an essay, and they reported ‘lockdown,'” explained Phillip Ledet, college student. “Everybody imagined it was a drill.”

“We read the principal screaming ‘Lockdown, lockdown!’ on the radio,” explained college student Brian Lagunas.

Lecturers failed to have an answer when pupils questioned if the situation was real. Which is how they understood it was.

“At that place we have been like, ‘Well if you will not know then it has to be real,'” claimed Icyss Meredith, pupil.

But the faculty, lecturers and learners alike, were being ready. They texted their moms and dads to let them know they had been secure and sheltering. They took include underneath desks, and instructor barricaded the doorways. And inevitably, they all