Harborview Elementary School is the latest Juneau school to receive a phone call threatening a school shooting. Superintendent Mark Miller says the call came in around 1:30 p.m. and the school, as well as neighboring Juneau-Douglas High School and the Marie Drake building, went into stay-put mode.
Miller went to Harborview as the Juneau Police Department was responding.
“It was just the police officers doing the hallway search and a roof search just to make sure that there were no people who shouldn’t be there,” Miller says.
Nothing was found and the stay-put was lifted 15 minutes later.
Juneau schools have received six phone calls threatening shootings over the last two weeks. None were valid, but Miller says each one has been taken seriously.
“I have to assume that everyone is real and assume that, until I know otherwise, that it is a threat,” Miller says.
Juneau Police are working with the Alaska State Troopers and the FBI in investigating the series of phone calls.
