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June 9, 2022 • 4 hours ago • 4 minutes reading Kingston Police are checking the identities of students and staff returning to Frontenac High School after the school was locked on Thursday. Photo by Elliott Ferguson / The Whig-Standard
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The 13-year-old was charged by police in Kingston after being summoned to Frontenac High School after a man was seen with a firearm in front of the school.
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Kingston police said in a press release that the young teenager was seen with three others outside the school. When they were found, the school administration was notified and the police were called around 11:10
Officers responded immediately, surrounded the school and reviewed surveillance records. The footage shows the young man having a firearm that appears to be a Glock-style pistol.
The school was closed as police searched for the young man.
The Limestone District School Board tweeted around 11:35 a.m. that “All staff and students are safe. The police are on the scene and everything is under control. “
Locking is when a threat is considered to be at school. All interior and exterior doors are locked and no one is allowed in or out. All are hidden from view and all lights and mobile phones must be turned off.
“As the accused young man was not monitored again by a camera to leave the school, members of the Kingston Police Emergency Response Department conducted an in-depth search of the school for the person,” police said.
Then the police found out that the four young men had left the property of Frontenak High School and separated. Police believe they may have targeted Bayridge High School, Bayridge State School or Holy Cross High School. As a result, all schools were put in hold and secured.
Detention and security is when the threat is considered to be outside the school. Staff and students move inside and all outside doors are locked. No one is allowed in or out and normal activities continue inside.
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While the police were looking for the young people, they asked the parents at 12:30 not to visit the schools, assuring that everyone inside was safe. About 25 minutes later, they said the incident was resolved.
A police statement sent later in the day, police said they found one of the young men at their home in the western part around 12:10 p.m., but they did not have a firearm. Police then found the three other young men, and one of them did have a Glock-style BB pistol.
The 13-year-old was accused by the police of possessing an imitation weapon and carrying a concealed weapon, which is dangerous for the public peace. The young teenager was detained in police custody to appear in court on bail the next day.
Frontenac 11th grader Hailey Thompson was in the hallway for lunch when the call to block first came. At first she thought it was a workout, but realized that the administration would not do it at noon.
“Then a teacher pushed us into a room and she said it was for our safety, and she looked terrified, so we knew it wasn’t a workout,” Thompson said. “Then the cops came to the door of the classroom after sitting there for a while, telling us to barricade the door. So we started pushing things in front of the door, and then we sat there for more than an hour, scared and nobody told us what was going on.
“We were scared for our friends and our brothers and sisters. We didn’t know what was going on. “
Frontenac student Zachary Bathurst said he and his peers in a French class heard a loud noise outside before entering the blockade for an hour.
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“It was almost like something hard falling to the ground – it wasn’t like being hit by a gun – it was almost like having a book and hitting it on the ground,” Bathurst said. “At 11:50 in the morning, I don’t know if anyone was trying to be funny, but we heard someone shouting ‘oh!’
Frontenac 9th grader Anthony Ayala said he was barricaded with his friends and a porter. He said that after all the recent events in the United States, his mind turned directly to the school shooter.
“We just started grabbing all this stuff, like a storage unit, and we started pushing it against the door and just sitting there,” Ayala said.
There have been eight school shootings in the United States in the past month, most notably an incident in which 19 elementary school students and two teachers were killed in Uwalde, Texas.
“People were joking about it, posting stories on their (social media), but it really wasn’t funny,” Thompson said. “With everything that’s going on in the (United States), you just scroll through Twitter and see so much about school shootings, then you get into that blockade and you don’t know what’s going on. We just wrote to our parents and friends. “
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– with files from Elliott Ferguson, The Whig-Standard
Kingston Police at Frontenac High School on Thursday, June 9, 2022 Photo by Elliott Ferguson / The Whig-Standard Kingston Police at Frontenac High School on Thursday, June 9, 2022 jpeg, KI
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