Update | 5:20 p.m.
Sgt. Krag Campbell with the Juneau Police Department says the caller reported an active shooter at JDHS, and what sounded like gunshots could be heard in the background.
Campbell says officers responded and were able to determine that the school was secure and students were safe before lifting the “stay put.”
“These type of threats are always very concerning,” Campbell says.
He says JPD is investigating the incident, along with the two other recent cases of threatening calls to local schools. He could not say whether the cases are related.
At least six officers were still at JDHS this afternoon as students were leaving the campus. Campbell says the incidents disruptive to both JPD and schools.
Original post | 4:26 p.m.
Juneau-Douglas High School went into stay-put mode this afternoon for about 35 minutes.
School district spokeswoman Kristin Bartlett says the main office of the high school received a “threatening” phone call around 3:15 p.m. It’s the district’s second one in two days. Yesterday’s lockdown was at Glacier Valley Elementary School.
Bartlett says the district finds the threatening phone calls “disturbing.”
“We are treating every incident as its own incident,” Bartlett says. “We’re definitely taking each phone call seriously and we just want to make sure that everybody’s safe. And depending on the circumstances, schools will go into lockdown or stay put and we’ll continue to respond appropriately.”
Last Monday, Juneau-Douglas High School, Yaaḵoosgé Daakahídi Alternative High School and Harborview Elementary School went into “stay put” mode after a similar threat last week.
Bartlett says Juneau Police was at Juneau-Douglas High School during the lockdown actively investigating.
This is a developing story. Please check back later for details.
