A hoax call placed Clovis school on lockdown. Here’s how students handled it

More than 100 elementary students were preparing to attend a Leadership Summit at Clovis High School last week when police received an anonymous call threatening a school shooting at the campus.

“When we were walking there, I was looking forward to actually having fun, getting up and moving around and playing games. But obviously that didn’t happen,” said Kimberly Millspaugh, a Clovis Elementary sixth-grader.

At about 9 a.m., Clovis police ordered a lockdown and officers rushed to the campus with guns drawn to search classrooms, one by one. For two hours, the 120 elementary kids invited to attend the summit were stuck inside a Clovis High gymnasium, along with 35 Clovis High students…

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