SWAT team responds to cap gun at Wash. school
From AP News | 2010-02-03 03:01:11
<div id="subtitle">Officers respond to report of shots fired at Washington elementary school; weapon was cap gun</div><div><p>The initial 911 report from the Vancouver, Wash., elementary school was alarming: shots fired at a school playground. That had police and SWAT officers scrambling Tuesday morning — only to find the weapon was a bright orange cap gun.</p><p>Police and school officials say a second-grade boy at Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary School brought the gun and apparently pointed it at two 6-year-olds and fired it, discharging smoke.</p><p>The two students told a playground supervisor that another student had fired a gun at them — and the response took off from there. Police spokeswoman Kim Kapp says, "When you have that type of a call, there's no waiting."</p><p>A SWAT sweep and school evacuation began, but officials say students were back in class a half-hour later.</p><p>District spokeswoman Kris Sork says school officials met with the boy and his parents to determine possible punishment.</p><p>___</p><p>Information from: The Columbian, http://www.columbian.com</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=68363194&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>
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