Albuquerque –
As we told you earlier, around 9:34 AM, per the Albuquerque Public Schools, Sandia High School was in a shelter-in-place because of a safety concern. Officers from the Albuquerque Police Department and Albuquerque Public School police responded to the school and put the school on lockdown. The safety concern was a possible firearm on campus.
Police investigated the scene and according to a letter sent out to APS parents, it was revealed APS found a bullet in a bathroom at the high school.
A concerned parent at the scene told us, it was not only a bullet, but an actual gun. She said two boys went into a bathroom and were trying to load a gun. A student not involved walked in on them loading the gun and the two offenders panicked and dropped the gun. They retrieved it and hurried out of the bathroom.
The mom went on to say that while she was waiting for the lockdown to end, she saw the two boys and they approached her and said they were involved. She urged them to go back to an APS Police officer outside the school. The two boys went to the APS officer and went back in the school. She ended up calling APS dispatch to inform them of the information and was frustrated the police were not searching the area outside the school for a ditched gun.
We observed an employee from Christ Lutheran School searching the area near their school for a possible firearm. He went and up the street and did not find anything.
After the lockdown was over, we observed plain clothed APS officers escorting a student who the mom said was involved around the neighborhood. It is unclear if he was taking the police to the firearm.
We have no idea if anyone will be charged with the bringing of the bullet on campus. They are minors and the adult crimes they commit are shielded from the public. The mom who witnessed all of this said she is pulling her student from APS and looking to homeschool.
Sadly, kids are not safe in public school and I applaud this mom for her decision to homeschool.
Rinse and repeat in this state. How is it that private schools don’t have this kind of problems? How is it enforced?
My kid attends this school. I got the typical generic “shelter in place” email when it was happening. Then we got a letter from the Principal that evening that stated they found a bullet in a bathroom and that the school was searched and nothing was found.
Then my son comes home and tells me the real story. That two kids brought a gun to school, and they were in the bathroom loading it when they dropped bullets. Other kids reported what they saw/heard in the bathroom and apparently APD officer on campus talked with some kids who were supposedly involved. Then Sandia staff was walking around the neighborhood looking for the gun that these kids ditched somewhere off campus.
It angers me that we are given the run around and half truths about what actually goes on at these schools. The Principal minimized the situation with the letter to parents…all the while knowing all the chaos and drama that went on questioning kids, looking for a gun, etc.
[…] to a letter sent to APS parents, only a bullet was found in a bathroom at the high school. However, this contradicts the account of a parent who was at the scene. Comments on the story also indicate that other students witnessed two male students handling a […]