Police find loaded gun, detain 4 suspects after lockdown at Grapevine High School
Police found a loaded handgun Friday afternoon in a search of Grapevine High School and took four teenage suspects into custody, according to police and school officials.
School officials received a report that a student had a gun at Grapevine High and placed the campus on lockdown while police searched the building, a Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District spokeswoman said in an email. No students were injured in the incident and no shots were fired.
About 1:30 p.m., a student notified officials about a photo on the social media app Snapchat that showed another student posing with the gun in his waistband while on campus, Grapevine police said in a news release.
Officers quickly arrived after being alerted by the school, and within 30 minutes, they found the students in question and the gun, according to the release. The loaded pistol was in a student’s backpack, police said.
The four teens who were taken into custody are two 17-year-old boys, and a boy and a girl under the age of 17, police said. They face charges including terroristic threat, criminal trespass, possession of a firearm in a school zone, and possession of marijuana.
“During this time, students were safely secured behind locked doors,” the school district’s statement said. “Police conducted a thorough sweep of the building and all individuals involved are detained..”
The lockdown at the high school lasted about an hour, according to the district’s tweets.
Timberline Elementary and Cross Timbers Middle School also were placed in precautionary lockouts due to their proximity to GHS, school officials said.
“We want to thank our partners at GCISD, Colleyville Police, and Grapevine Fire Department for their assistance and swift response to this situation,” police said in their release. “We also credit the student who came forward and reported the danger so that both we and the school could continue to keep everyone safe.”
This story was originally published December 13, 2019 at 4:10 PM.
