El Camino Real High briefly on lockdown, man with gun reportedly seen on campus
El Camino High Real High School and Hale Middle School in Woodland Hills were briefly placed on lockdown Wednesday after a man with a gun was reported in the El Camino faculty parking lot, Los Angeles police and school district officials said.
The incident was reported at 2:42 p.m. at the campus at Valley Circle and Burbank boulevards, said LAPD spokeswoman Norma Eisenman. The sighting was reported near the end of the school day and it was not immediately clear how many students were kept in their classrooms.
By 3:15 p.m., a student had been detained by police and officers were reopening the campuses, Officer Sara Faden said.
Wednesday's lockdown comes one week after a school police officer was shot outside El Camino. The officer survived and police launched a massive manhunt that shut down seven square miles of the west San Fernando Valley and kept nine schools in the area under lockdown for several hours.
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EDITOR'S PICKS:
El Co is a dangerous place but they say Reseda High School is Ghetto and when was the last time RHS was placed on lock down because of a gun or a shooting on RHS campus? The last time was in 1994 and it has not happened since. RHS is the safest school in the Valley.
Posted by: Christian Batts | January 26, 2011 at 03:29 PM
AGAIN???
Posted by: KR | January 26, 2011 at 05:33 PM
Santa Susana High in Simi Valley was briefly on lockdown today, too; why wasn't that in the news?
Posted by: KR | January 26, 2011 at 05:34 PM
They were not let out until three fourty.
Posted by: Ms. Anonymous | January 26, 2011 at 05:35 PM
Someone over reacted abit and saw a cell phone and probably thought it was a gun. Cognitively, deu to last week shooting, their mind created a gun picture.
Posted by: Mike | January 27, 2011 at 06:47 AM