Pellet Gun Causes School Lockdown
Prince George, B.C. – For the second time in three weeks, a pellet gun has forced the lockdown of Kelly Road Secondary School and Heather Park Elementary.
Prince George RCMP Corporal Craig Douglass says the lockdown happened after the administration at Kelly Road received a report of a group of youths with what appeared to be a pellet gun near the school at around 12pm today.
He says Heather Park was also locked down as a precautionary measure and police were notified.
Following an investigation Douglass says police were able to locate the suspect “which led to a pellet gun being located and seized from a vehicle. Lockdowns were lifted.”
He says criminal charges are not likely to be laid as “investigators are confident the youth was exercising poor judgement and had not intended on harming anyone.”
Douglass adds today’s suspect had nothing to do with the previous case involving a pellet gun on May 11 (see story here).
In light of this incident, he notes “it is never acceptable to bring a weapon of any kind to a school. Such incidents are taken very seriously by police and school staff.”
Comments
College Heights had a man with a gun reported walking around the neighbourhood as well last evening. Cops all over near the end of Domano.
How close is too close? There are houses across the street from Kelly Road School. Will kids with pellet guns at those homes trigger lockdowns? I understand the concern about shootings at schools, but at the same time, we’ve got a problem when people can’t engage in perfectly legal, harmless activities because they happen to live near a school.
I agree things get over blown when it requires a police response to a pellet gun. I guess if a kid is waving one around at school… but other than that why can’t the teachers just have a talk and discipline the student in house?
In Chicago they had 17 gun related murders just last weekend, and in Baltimore they had 41 gun related murders just in the month of May. These cities have about 1000 murders per capita to the one we have here in PG… and so goes the mindset of modern policing that we inherit from the hysteria this generates in other cities like those where every situation requires a military like response.
It’s always an overreaction, until it isn’t. Then the masses will blame the RCMP for not doing enough to save their babies. They really can’t win.
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