Santa Monica Excessive Faculty On Lockdown After Bomb Risk; Police On Scene – Deadline

Santa Monica Excessive Faculty is on lockdown after a cellphone operator acquired a bomb risk simply earlier than midday. Police are on the scene, and college students have been informed to shelter in place.

Police mentioned at 12:48 p.m. that “no system or suspicious gadgets have been positioned” however that officers are persevering with to “conduct a precautionary search of the world.”

The college is throughout the road from the Santa Monica Police and Hearth departments’ headquarters.

Principal Marae Cruce despatched out a alert addressing “the Samohi Household,” saying that “at about 11:42 a.m. the switchboard operator acquired a phoned bomb risk, alleging the bomb was set to go off inside 5 minutes. The college contacted the police instantly following this cellphone name. The is at present in Shelter-in-Place, and all college students are safely in lecture rooms.”

Cruce added that “the safety group, Santa Monica Police Division and directors are at present sweeping the campus.”

Greater than a century outdated, Santa Monica Excessive Faculty is at 601 Pico Blvd., bordered by Olympic Boulevard on the north, 4th Avenue on the west and seventh Avenue on the east. The college has been the positioning of film productions together with Insurgent with no Trigger (1955) and 17 Once more (2009), and its well-known alumni vary from Glenn Ford, Joan Blondell and Robert Wagner to Robert Downey Jr, Sean Penn, Rob Lowe, Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez and Ronda Rousey.