Louisville, Ky.’s Western High School and Walter-Williams Environmental School were put on lockdown Friday morning after police received a report of an active shooter, but the call was likely a hoax, the Courier-Journal reported.
The schools were put on lockdown at 10:45 a.m., which was lifted when a police search of Western High found nothing.
Jefferson County Sheriff’s officer Carl Yates told the paper that “there’s no reason to believe at this point that it’s anything but a hoax.” The call, which threatened a mass shooting, came in around 9:07 a.m.
Jefferson County Public Schools spokeswoman Bonnie Hackbarth had earlier “stressed” the report has not been confirmed, and she did not know where the initial report had come from.
Derrick Rose, a journalist with Louisville’s WHAS, said fire crews on the scene said no injuries have been reported.
Rose also said despite “countless” emergency personnel at the high school, their movements are “not frantic in nature.”
Countless number of emergency personnel on scene. But activity from then is not frantic in nature.
— Derrick Rose WHAS11 (@WHAS11DRose) September 18, 2015
