KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – The Lake County Sheriff’s Office said two Kelseyville High School students were arrested on Friday morning after making threats to shoot another student.
The students’ names were not released due to their juvenile status.
Sheriff’s Lt. Corey Paulich said that on Friday Kelseyville High School staff and a Lake County Sheriff’s school resource deputy were provided information that two students had made verbal threats to shoot another student at the school.
“We’re all safe, everything’s safe. It’s safe for all students,” Kelseyville Unified Superintendent Dave McQueen said Friday afternoon.
“Not once was anybody in danger,” he added.
McQueen explained that the entire incident happened very fast.
At about 10 a.m. Friday he said school officials received the threat information. The school resource deputy then went to look for the students.
McQueen said that at 10:10 a.m. he put all district schools on lockdown. While the threat was made on the Kelseyville High campus, McQueen included all of the schools in the lockdown out of an abundance of caution.
“The safety of all of the students and staff is very important to me,” McQueen said. “If I have any inkling that anything is credible, I’m going to shut things down and protect kids.”
Minutes later, the deputy detained the students in question. McQueen said the lockdown was lifted at 10:15 a.m.
Because of confidentiality issues, McQueen said he could not discuss specifics of where the students were found by the deputy.
McQueen said the situation unfolded so quickly that he didn’t have time to put out a phone call to parents. However, he said he posted an update on Facebook and by 10:30 a.m. he had emailed parents to inform them of the situation.
He said the sheriff’s office is conducting its investigation and the school district will follow its own discipline policy.
Paulich said the two students were arrested for making criminal threats and transported to Lake County Probation, which handles juvenile cases.
He said the parents of the suspects were contacted and are cooperating with the investigation.
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Kelseyville High students arrested for shooting threat
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