UPDATE: Active Shooter Call at Sheyenne High School Result of Others Talking About Restaurant Shooting
Administrative and counseling teams will be available in the morning for anyone needs support.
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR-UPDATE 7PM) — Shortly after the shooting at Plaza Azteca, someone inside Sheyenne High School heard bits and pieces of what was happening, panicked and called 9-1-1 to report a shooter at the school.
That’s according to West Fargo Public School officials.
Hundreds of people attending an all-city track meet were being ushered into the school as it was going into lockdown due to the restaurant shooting and mile and a half away.
While that was happening, law enforcement got a call that there was an active shooter in the Sheyenne music wing.
SRO Aaron Ostlund began a sweep and was joined by other officers with guns drawn.
They found zero evidence of a school shooter or presence of a threat.
Police learned the call was placed by someone who had misinterpreted others in the building talking about the restaurant incident.
Administrative and counseling teams will be available in the morning for anyone needs support.
**ORIGINAL STORY BELOW**
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Shortly after a shooting at Plaza Azteca Mexican Restaurant in south Fargo, someone inside Sheyenne High School heard bits and pieces of what was happening, panicked and called 9-1-1 to report a shooter at the school.
That’s according to West Fargo Public School officials.
Hundreds of people attending an all-city track meet were being ushered into the school right before authorities were alerted about what turned out to be a false report of a school shooter.
Sheyenne was one of four West Fargo schools that went into lockdown for the shooting a mile and a half away.
The building was searched and cleared and the call was proven false before the district had a chance to change its response to the lockdowns.
A woman and baby were both shot by a suspect at the restaurant around 2 p.m.
He stole a vehicle and Fargo and crashed south of Hawley near Silver Lake.
Authorities say he then took his own life.
The people that were shot were both taken into surgery.
