Yesterday, October 13, at approximately 10:24 a.m., the Public Safety Answering Point dispatch center received a phone call stating there was an active shooter at Red River High School with multiple people injured. Officers of the Grand Forks Police Department were dispatched to Red River High School and immediately began checking the school and grounds.
The first officer responder in this incident was the RRHS School Resource Officer, who was on duty and on scene at the time of the call. During the initial response, the Patrol Supervisor contacted the School Resource Officer, who verified that he had seen nothing unusual and had received no reports of a shooting or injured people.
Officers continued to check the building and grounds and did not locate anything suspicious or out of the ordinary. During this search, the school was put into lockdown. The search and verification of the school’s status took approximately one hour. Multiple local, county, state, and federal agencies responded to assist with this incident.
The police department is aware of similar incidents occurring in the region and nationally on today’s date.
A video revealing more about the call by Neil Carlson of iNewZ.TV can be seen below-
