Los Angeles school police had received a report from the LAPD at 9:43 a.m. that there was an active shooter at the school and there were six victims down on campus. Over the next hour, police determined that the report was a hoax and the campus was safe
After the principal announced their Hollywood High School campus was going on lockdown Tuesday morning, Jaila Counts, a junior, and her 20 ballet classmates ran to a nearby closet, where they sat cramped for the next hour, crying silently as they waited for answers.
Earlier, LAPD and school police officers entered the campus with guns drawn, searching for any victims or suspects.The shooter approached Javier Mejia and Winfield Lee and opened fire Sunday while the 17-year-olds were attending the carnival on the 2700 block of North Broadway, according to authorities.
Even after Jaila and her classmates learned the incident was a hoax, she said she couldn’t imagine resuming class for the rest of the day as normal. Parents Jessica Gomez and Dulce Lupercio said they rushed over and left their jobs when they received messages from their sons, ninth-graders, about the school lockdown., where a gunman killed 19 children and two adults in a shooting in May. She took an Uber to get to Hollywood High School.
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