Gun hoax locks down schools

Several schools in the Highline School District were locked down Tuesday, Nov. 30 after a student called 9-1-1 and made false reports about a person with a gun at the Evergreen High School campus. King County sheriff's deputies arrested the 15-year-old student at the school after tracking him through his cell phone, sheriff's spokesman Sgt. John Urquhart said in a news release. He was booked into the Youth Service Center for investigation of making threats. Starting about 9:30 a.m., five calls were made to 9-1-1. The voice said someone had an AK-47 rifle in a locker at the school and that "we need help quickly," according to the Sheriff's Office. The calls prompted about 20 deputies and detectives to respond. Police checked lockers with a K-9 dog that can sniff out weapons. No weapons were found. A Highline School District spokeswoman confirmed that several schools were locked down for about 45 minutes Tuesday morning.

The schools included the Evergreen campus at 830 S.W. 116th St., which has three small high schools. Schools next to it -- Cascade Middle School and New Start, an alternative school -- also were locked down.
The Evergreen campus is among the schools in unincorporated areas that are set to lose a school resource officer next year due to the county's budget cuts. The school resource officers, along with officers from other specialty units, will be moved back to patrol.

Shots fired into elderly woman's home

A man called 9-1-1 after hearing what sounded like 4-6 gun shots in his cul-de-sac at the 26800 block of 17th Place South. Officers met the man in front of his home and did an area check. Another call came in shortly after from an elderly woman in the same cul-de-sac. She was up in the night and on her way back to bed when she heard what sounded like a crashing sound in the adjacent bedroom. Officers entered her home and found broken glass on the floor of the bedroom. The damage was consistent with a bullet hole through the window. The bullet penetrated the bedroom window, ricocheted on the bedroom door, went through the wall in the hallway then traveled into the bathroom where it came to rest in the bathtub.

Officers also observed a second bullet hole on the side of the house that traveled into one bedroom and lodged in the wall of the other bedroom. Officers performed another area check and located 3 spent shell casings in front of the woman's house. The casings were collected and sent to a lab. There were no injuries reported and no suspect information available at this time.

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