A series of lockdowns have been lifted and one person is in custody after four schools received a bomb threat and another had a gun scare.
Throughout the day, Monte Vista High School, Thurgood Marshall Middle School, Lewis Middle School, Lincoln High School and Magnolia Science Academy were all on lockdown for several hours. Loma Elementary School "closed its school" after a nearby school went on lockdown.
The San Diego Unified School District said they received an email to a generic district account that suggested a bomb was placed at Thurgood Marshall, Lewis, Lincoln and Magnolia. They do not know why those schools were chosen. As lockdowns were put into place, bomb-sniffing dogs were brought in to each school, though nothing was found.
Monte Vista High School in El Cajon and Thurgood Marshall Middle School in Scripps Ranch were the first schools to be put in lockdown at 10:30 a.m., according to the San Diego Sheriff's spokesperson and school district officials.
At Monte Vista High School, the school was put into a lockdown after a report of a man carrying what appeared to be a gun.
Shortly after, at 12:30 p.m., a 14-year old male was taken into custody after investigators found what appeared to be a replica of a western, old-style handgun in a student’s locker. They said they also found what appeared to be narcotics in the locker.
Thurgood Marshall Middle School in Scripps Ranch was also placed on lockdown at 10:30 a.m. by San Diego Police assisting SDUSD school police. SDPD said they set up a command post at the school. The school, on the 9700 block of Avenue of Nations, was taken off lockdown at approximately 1:12 p.m., the SDUSD said.
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The Grossmont Union High School District said the lockdown was lifted at 12:19 p.m. At that point, classes and lunched resumed.
At 11:20 a.m., Loma Elementary School said they were not on lockdown but instead had closed the school and locked the doors because a nearby school was on lockdown, the school said. Class still took place during that time.
Magnolia Science Academy in San Carlos was placed on lockdown at 11:30 a.m. after the school received unspecified threats, according to the SDUSD. SDPD were on scene investigating. The lockdown was lifted at approximately 1:12 p.m., the district said.
Lincoln High School was under a shelter-in-place that took effect at approximately 11:46 a.m., a school district official said. At 12:13 p.m., the district tweeted that the school was on lockdown due to a possible security threat. The lockdown was lifted at approximately 1:12 p.m., the district said.
No injuries were reported throughout the day. As of 1:12 p.m., the SDUSD said every lockdown had been lifted.
The district says families were notified about the lockdowns via calls and text messages, if parents have opted-in to them.
Leonard Miser said he learned about the lockdown through his child.
"I got a phone call from him saying there is some kind of bomb threat, and now they have to wait in a long line like this to get them out? Who knows what can happen by the time we get in there," said Miser.
School police, the SDPD and the FBI are still investigating who sent in the anonymous bomb threat
