Schools are still safe havens, if the shooters are out of the school.

The story below is a new report from the local news channel. The High School in the story is the school that Anthony attends and where is Aunt Brandi is a Counselor. It was scary morning and of course at very unproductinve day of school.



Gunshot victim sparks high school lock down
September 13,2007

Gunshot victim sparks high school lock down

An early morning shooting near Legacy High School in North Las Vegas sends area schools into lockdown. The shooting wounded one 17-year-old male with what police are calling non life-threatening injuries.
The shooting did not actually take place on school property. North Las Vegas Police say the teen was actually found near the intersection of Commerce and Deer Springs, walking in the direction of Legacy.
A woman driving by stopped to ask if the boy was okay. When she saw that he was wounded, police say she put him in her car and took him to this school for medical attention.
"I heard some boys got shot and that's it," parent Mellany Almacn told News 3. Almacn says she got a phone call from her two boys Thursday morning that any parent would dread. "It's kind of scary because I heard like a riot in my phone," Almacn said.
"Everyone just started panicking. Nobody knew what was going on. Everyone just started calling their parents," Mellany's son Maverick Almacn said. News of a 17-year-old boy stumbling to the nurse's office with a gunshot wound struck fear in students and sent them scrambling to call their parents.
It also sent Legacy and the nearby elementary school into lockdown. "If there is any sort of police activity regardless of where that activity may be, if it's in the immediate area of a school obviously we want to err on the side of caution to protect our children. They do that by locking the school down," Sean Walker with North Las Vegas Police Department said.
Schools were locked down for two hours while North Las Vegas Police searched for answers. The gunshot victim, who didn't explain what had happened, was taken to UMC. It's unclear at this point if he was even a student at Legacy.
Mellany Almacn says even though Legacy High just opened last year, she's ready to transfer her children to another school. "If they want to transfer, I want to transfer my boys to another school."