Highlands Elementary in Mission temporarily locked down after shots fired across street
Highlands Elementary School was placed on lockdown Friday afternoon after gunfire was reported nearby, according to a district spokesman.
David Smith, a Shawnee Mission School District spokesman, said the district got a call that there was gunfire heard outside the elementary school, prompting the school to bring all students, teachers and staff inside and temporarily go on lockdown.
The lockdown was lifted by around 3 p.m. and Smith said the school went ahead and dismissed students. According to the school’s website, the school normally lets out at 3:10 p.m.
“While that was happening, the police acted on a house across the street and there was additional gunfire so we brought all of our staff and kids and parents back in the building until the situation was settled and then we finished dismissal,” Smith said.
Smith said no one at the school was injured.
Video captured by KCTV5 showed a person emerge from the front door of a home across from the school with a gun while police officers were outside. In audio from the recording, multiple shots can be heard after someone yells, “Hands up, get your hands up!”
This story was originally published March 1, 2019 at 4:03 PM with the headline "Highlands Elementary in Mission temporarily locked down after shots fired across street."
