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6th grader arrested for making hoax 911 call of shooting at Shoemaker High School, district says

An 11-year-old called 911 to report a shooting at Shoemaker High School Friday resulting in the evacuation of the school and a massive police presence, according to KISD officials.
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KILLEEN, Texas — A Live Oak Middle School student who called 911 Friday to say there had been a shooting at Shoemaker High School will face a felony charge for making a false report, according to the Killeen Independent School District.

KISD spokesman Terry Abbott said an 11-year-old 6th grader made the hoax call which forced the evacuation of the school and sparked fear among students and parents.

“This student committed a very serious crime that could have put lives in danger and caused fear among Shoemaker High School students, their families and teachers,” Superintendent John Craft said. “We are asking parents throughout our school district to help us to make this very clear to students: we will find and arrest and help prosecute anyone who threatens the safety of a school or who falsely reports a threat. A student who does this may think it’s a joke. It’s not. It’s a felony.” 

Killeen ISD police and Killeen police rushed to the high school Friday afternoon to clear out the students and do a room-by-room search.

Abbott said the KISD police chief also sent officers to the other high schools to make sure those schools were safe. 

Abbott said Shoemaker Principal Micah Wells quickly made an emergency recorded phone call to parents to assure them students were safe and that the report was a hoax while district officials reported to media and on social media that there was no shooting.

“This hoax created a potentially dangerous situation for police officers and for students and staff. Our highest priority at Killeen ISD is safety, and threats like this will never be tolerated here.”

Dr. Craft thanked the KISD Police Department for their quick and effective work to investigate and arrest the culprit and thanked the Killeen Police Department for its support in the matter.

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