{"id":27205,"date":"2024-04-22T17:12:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T00:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunnoracle.com\/?p=27205"},"modified":"2024-04-27T23:10:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T06:10:41","slug":"breaking-news-unconfirmed-threats-prompt-shelter-in-place-mandate-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunnoracle.com\/27205\/uncategorized\/breaking-news-unconfirmed-threats-prompt-shelter-in-place-mandate-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Hoax calls prompt shelter-in-place mandate on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photowrap\">\n\t<div class='sfiphotowrap sfiphotowrap modal-photo' data-photo-ids='27251,27254,27253,27252' data-story-id='27205'>\n\t\t<div id='storypageslideshow' style=''>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"slideshowwrap\" data-ratio=\"1.3333333333333\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gunnoracle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_1947-1200x900.jpg\" class=\"slideshow-photo\" alt=\"IMG_1947\" data-width=\"1200\" data-height=\"900\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class='modal-photo' href="#slideshow">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='slideshow-enlarge'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fa fa-clone slideshow-icon\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='slideshow-title'>Gallery<span class='v-divider'> &bull; <\/span>4 Photos<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"captionboxmittop\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"photocredit\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gunnoracle.com\/staff_name\/vin-bhat\/\">Vin Bhat<\/a><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"photocaption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStudents leave Gunn following the shelter-in-place mandate.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photobottom\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"newssourcephotos\" data-photoids=\"27251,27254,27253,27252\"><\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At 1:58 p.m. today, a message on the intercom instructed students to begin sheltering in place. This mandate lasted for one hour and 48 minutes, eventually lifted by an intercom announcement at 3:46 p.m.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/opengis.cityofpaloalto.org\/betaPoliceCFSmap\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">City of Palo Alto Police Calls for Service map<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1:51 p.m. calls reported a man with a gun and a 1:53 p.m. call reported a bomb threat, both near Georgia Avenue and Miranda Avenue. The City of Palo Alto has now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofpaloalto.org\/News-Articles\/Police-Department\/Phoned-In-Hoaxes-Result-in-Police-Response-to-Gunn-High-School\">confirmed<\/a> that these calls were hoaxes \u2014 the first two, at 1:51 p.m., stated they had seen a teen boy carrying a rifle and two pipe bombs walking toward Gunn, and that a man in his twenties wearing body armor and carrying a rifle was approaching the school. The 1:53 p.m. call came from a man who said he was approaching Gunn with a bomb.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This initial shelter-in-place announcement was reiterated at 2:01 p.m., emphasizing that the situation was not a drill. Two more announcements at 2:31 p.m. and 3:06 p.m. reminded students to keep sheltering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At 2:15 p.m., Principal Dr. Wendy Stratton posted a Schoology update detailing that there was an unconfirmed threat on campus, and that the Palo Alto Police Department was present and partnering with admin to provide more updates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaloAltoPolice\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PAPD thread on X<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, formerly known as Twitter, posted at 2:35 p.m. said that school officials had also instructed students to shelter in place at Fletcher Middle School as a precautionary measure. Police also confirmed that all students and staff on Gunn\u2019s campus were safe.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='infographicwidget'><div class='center'><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Happening Now: Officers are on scene at Gunn High School at 780 Arastradero Road investigating an unconfirmed threat towards the school. School officials have placed the campus in a \u201cshelter-in-place\u201d status while officers investigate. (1\/3) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nQTeEz9GrT\">pic.twitter.com\/nQTeEz9GrT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Palo Alto Police (@PaloAltoPolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaloAltoPolice\/status\/1782523655668547802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div><\/div><div class='clear'><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At 2:48 p.m., staff members received an email from Stratton stating that students would be released from school at 3:50 p.m. and would be permitted to transport themselves home or be picked up by a parent. All after-school events, including athletics, were canceled. Parents received the same information via ParentSquare at 2:54 p.m., and students were notified via Schoology soon after.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At 3:09 p.m., PAPD noted in the same X thread that they had \u201cuncovered no evidence to corroborate that any actual threat exists,\u201d but that they would continue the shelter-in-place <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">while investigating. Half an hour later, they announced the end of their search.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='video6360' class='videowidget sno-6649dfcc01131'>\n\t<div class='embedcontainer'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1n7r1sXrdFdW_4uzXs9pLkrBWp8bnZ6d1\/preview\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" allow=\"autoplay\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\tOmry Bejerano<\/div>\n<style>\n.sno-6649dfcc01131 {\n\tfloat: left; margin: 30px 30px 30px 0px;}\n<\/style>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Police were still present on campus as students were dismissed. According to an officer who wished to remain anonymous due to the pending investigation, the lockdown and search went according to police and 澳门六合彩内幕资料 protocol. However, there is still an open, criminal investigation. According to a 4:46 p.m. Schoology post from Stratton, a police presence will remain on campus throughout the week, and there will be additional staff members available at the Wellness Center.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Police <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2024\/04\/22\/threats-prompt-school-closures-in-palo-alto-orinda\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">confirmed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that Orinda\u2019s Miramonte High School, located just east of Oakland, was also in lockdown as of 3 p.m., but police at Gunn stated that there was no known connection between the two incidents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Gunn Safety Committee member Vin Bhat, Gunn\u2019s safety committee will be convening after school on April 23, and the districtwide committee will be meeting on Wednesday, April 24. Gunn administrators said they could not comment until Tuesday, April 23. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 1:58 p.m. today, a message on the intercom instructed students to begin sheltering in place. This mandate lasted for one hour and 48 minutes, eventually lifted by an intercom announcement at 3:46 p.m.\u00a0 According to the City of Palo Alto Police Calls for Service map, 1:51 p.m. calls reported a man with a gun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":27251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,604490751,604490703,1],"tags":[604493597,604492209],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnoracle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnoracle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnoracle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnoracle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnoracle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27205"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/gunnoracle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27273,"href":"https:\/\/gunnoracle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27205\/revisions\/27273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnoracle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnoracle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnoracle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnoracle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}