The Bukit Church: Students at Tennessee Middle School were evacuated on Tuesday on the second day of the class for this year and bused to the local arsenal after a 911 caller claimed to be a shooter in the building, whose authorities later said they were “hoax.” Hawkins County Sheriff Ronnie Lawson Said the call came around 8 in the morning, pushing the main responses in voluntary high school in the Hill Church of the regional law enforcement agency that appeared not a suspect and did not see shooting injury.
Deputy immediately responded and began searching, with at least five institutions involved, the authorities said.
The school evacuated all students, marching them in line with their hands on their heads to the school bus, and they were taken to the warehouse to return to their parents, said the school director, Matt Hixson.
Other schools are temporarily confined as precautions.
Local authority, along with the Tennessee investigation bureau, now looks at who makes a call.
Chief Chief Chief Chad Chad Mosley said the caller did not give his name and it had not been determined if the call was made inside or outside the school.
“Here, we tell you straight up, this is a trick,” Lawson said at a press conference, with the police chief.
“There are no shots.
No one was injured.
Thank God everyone is safe.” Lawson said 911 callers claimed to be in a school bathroom with a gun, said he had been intimidated by popular students and went to the gym to shoot his gun.
Lawson said one police officer was in high school while the person was still calling with Dispatcher 911.
Hixson said he expected the class to continue Wednesday morning.
“We’ve been through Covid and many of our closures and intentions are to keep students in school and make them study,” he said.
Chris Vaughan from Church Hill Rescue Squad said two people were transported from scenes for injuries not related to shots.
According to Sheriff, in the incident “truly not related” a sick student and experienced seizures while the 911 call occurred.
Video broadcasts with media outlets show a large presence of police in schools, around 80 miles (129 kilometers) east of Knoxville in Hawkins County.
The Hawkins County school initially considers the incident “emergency situation,” said, “Our main concern at this time is for the safety of students and our staff; remain clean of the area to allow law enforcement and access to emergency personnel to the region.” This version corrects spelling.
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