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| Tennessee high school on LOCKDOWN over reports of active shooter, ambulances on site | Tennessee high school on LOCKDOWN over reports of active shooter, ambulances on site |
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| Volunteer High School in Hawkins County, Tennessee has gone into lockdown on the first day back at classes after reports of an active shooter on campus. Local media said first responders are evacuating the building. | Volunteer High School in Hawkins County, Tennessee has gone into lockdown on the first day back at classes after reports of an active shooter on campus. Local media said first responders are evacuating the building. |
| The school went into lockdown around 8am local time. Hawkins County School District posted a message on Facebook alerting parents to the situation and advising them that the students would be evacuated to the nearby Mount Carmel National Guard Armory. | |
| "We are currently under lockdown at Volunteer High School. The parameter is secure. Please do not attempt to come to the school," the message read. | |
| In a later update, school district officials said that the evacuated children were being transported by bus, along with a police escort, to the Armory. Parents were told to collect their children from there, but remain in their cars upon arriving at the facility and await further information. | |
| The district body said that all schools “from Surgoinsville to East Hawkins County” had been placed on lockdown over the alert. At around 9:30am local time, it was reported that the lockdown had been lifted at all schools apart from Volunteer High School. | |
| A number of local reporters and media, citing officials in the Hawkins County EMS Ambulance Service, said that several patients had been transferred from the school to hospital, although no further information was given. Good Morning Tennessee anchor Tearsa Smith, citing Hawkins County Sheriff, tweeted that no suspect has been located and that no injuries are reported. Smith also said the Hawkins County Sheriff’s Office received a call just before 8:00am stating that “an active shooter was inside Volunteer High School.” | |
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