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Posted on Tue, Nov. 10, 2009 07:47 AM
Central High School steps up security following fight, off-campus shooting
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The Kansas City School District will take extra security measures today at Central High School, a day after a large fight broke out at the school and four people were shot in an off-campus disturbance.
Extra school district administrators and security will be at Central High School, said Andrew Riley, district spokesman. Police plan additional patrols around the school.
“We are doing this to reestablish a sense normalcy and reestablish a learning environment . . . ,” Riley said. “We want to make sure that they know this is a safe building.”
Those are in addition to the schools normal security measures, including metal detectors.
He said the school is not on a formal lockdown where classroom doors would be locked and students’ move further restricted. Students will be able to leave the school if they have proper credentials or parents call.
The additional security measures were put into place after a negative incident in the community spilled into the school, Riley said.
“The world is a challenging place for kids,” Riley said. “They see something outside that causes them to react in a variety of ways. Sometimes they bring that to school.”
The melee erupted at the school about 1:05 p.m. at the school at 3221 Indiana Avenue. Security guards used pepper spray to break it up. That’s when a juvenile allegedly hit a guard, police said. That student was arrested.
That as many as five students were directly involved in the fight, Riley said, but it attracted other students.
Police called for two ambulances to help treat students exposed to pepper spray. Police received about 20 prank 911 calls from students during the melee reporting events that were untrue.
About 4:45 p.m., three teenage girls and one man were shot after a group of 10 to 20 teens began arguing in the street in the 4500 block of Prospect around 4:45 p.m.
Two of the girls were driven to the hospital and an ambulance transported another. They were all expected to survive.
Detectives were looking for a man in his late teens who fled the scene in a silver Chevy Monte Carlo.
To reach Robert A. Cronkleton, call 816-234-4261 or send e-mail to bcronkleton@kcstar.com
Posted on Tue, Nov. 10, 2009 07:47 AM
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