The school is giving the students a lot of conversation fodder at the local water cooler but a nightmare to the parents.
A local newspaper – Sign on San Diego – is reporting that for the second day of their classes, students at the year-round Otay Ranch High School were in lockdown for an hour on Tuesday after police said there was a “dangerous suspect” in the area.
The lockdown started about 2:30 p.m. and ended about 3:30 p.m. Swarms of police officers circled the campus with pistols and shotguns drawn as helicopters flew overhead.
About 2,400 students were in the school on Olympic Parkway at the time, just about to let out for the day, said Lillian Leopold, spokeswoman for Sweetwater Union High School District.
I didn’t hear of any suspect being taken in by the police for questioning or getting caught at the location.
If you are from that area or you go to school there, let us know what was it like.
i am a student at otay ranch high school and this is what happen….
it was vary wired when i heard the secatery say “teachers please lock the doors and do not i repeat DO NOT let any students out”. i was like what is going on i wasn’t scared until i heard helicopters flying by. when i heard the helicopter i was like okay this is serious. my teacher and i try to put the tv on but he didn’t have cable so we use this wired and we got the tv no but the news wern’t on so yea it was about 3:25 when they say “students we just had a school lockdown you may now leave. when i got out i went to the police and ask them what happend and they did not responed and thats pretty much it.
Humberto, nicely put.
What Humberto said was pretty much it, just in my class which was located in the 700 building near the pavilion and theater of the School. We didn’t exactly hear a helicopter but saw groups of 4-8 policemen walking up and down the hallways with at least 2 shot guns and the rest had pistols. When my teacher saw that she immediately struggled to get the news on, but she managed to find something on her computer about a hostile on campus. It was kind’ve freaky cuz nobody in the class and the teacher knew what exactly was going on, just saw multiple police walking around with their weapons drawn.
Wow, with no information and cops with guns drawn, one always fears the worst.
i was in room 658
my mom was so worry she try to call me but for the first time in my life (not really) i left my cell pohne but still the teacher said “if i see a phone i take it”
Why teacher take it? Cell phones not allowed in school?
its not only during class time but school was over so yea
im a student at otay ranch high school im iin the 10th grade the lockdown was boring noe one told us wat was goiin on we didnt even noe y we couldnt go home… most kiids in my class were just actiin as iif nuthiin was wrong well so did i i dont think enyone really took the lockdown seriously….
it was bull, period.