Security tight after student brings guns to Fed. Way school

[johnnie]

"Extra security is on hand at Todd Beamer High School in Federal Way today after a 10th grader brought three loaded guns and extra ammunition to school on Thursday.

The teen and another student believed to have been working with him are being held at the King County Juvenile Detention Center, said Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer. The teen brought the weapons to school to sell, not to commit any violence, authorities said.

The two teens and possibly a third are believed to have stolen the weapons from a State Patrol trooper's Pierce County home earlier that day, Troyer said. The six guns stolen were in a safe, but Troyer said it was unclear whether the safe was locked."

More:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003674511_webfedguns20m.html


Sheeez. They also locked down a school here in my area because of a bomb threat today. In the Cleveland area within the last few weeks they have closed about 5 schools because of bomb threats. This was before the VT shootings.

[central scrutinizer]

1. A bomb WENT OFF at my daughter's high school Wednesday

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2007/04/19/d1.cr.schoolblast.0419.p1.php?section=cityregion

Published: Thursday, April 19, 2007

A student was arrested at Willamette High School on Wednesday after a homemade explosive device detonated inside a trash can, prompting a 2 1/2 -hour lockdown while police and a bomb-sniffing dog searched the campus.

No one was injured when the device exploded at 11:05 a.m. near some school lockers.

[PA Democrat]

2. There have been all sorts of threats and "suspicious" packages

at local schools here as well. I remember the same thing happening right after Columbine.

BTW, is that school named after Todd Beamer from the Flight 95 of 9-11?

[johnnie]

4. I am guessing it is

I'm not from the Seattle area, but I would have to figure he may have been.

[LisaM]

3. Todd Beamer High School?

They must have slipped that one by - I live in Seattle and I never heard that name till they did this story yesterday.

[johnnie]

5. Oh crap..this was yesterday?

I read the date and thought today was the 19th. Yikes, I am getting old.

Sorry folks, this is probably old news.

[LisaM]

6. I saw it on the Seattle news last night

the story is probably from today.