A San Bernardino high school student, carrying a loaded gun, was arrested Tuesday morning after another student alerted school officials.
The Oak Hills High School in Hesperia was on lockdown for about an hour as school police and law enforcement investigated the incident. No shots were fired, and no one was hurt.
Hesperia Unified School District Superintendent Dave Olney said the school’s police and administration did everything right, exactly what they were trained to do.
“We had a student that tipped us there may be a firearm on campus, we immediately went in to our code red protocols,” Olney said. “Our school police responded immediately as did our sheriff’s department, we also had the California Highway Patrol … and again immediately went into lockdown.”
The school district’s police chief Steve Hinojos, said there was a short foot pursuit of the student who had the gun on his body, and he was ultimately taken into custody. Administration did not release any information about the student, or a possible motive for bringing the gun onto campus.