BAILEY - The Department of Public Safety confirmed to 9NEWS that a gunman, claiming to have an explosive device, had taken at least four people hostage in Platte Canyon High School, but is now only holding two people hostage.


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The Jefferson County Bomb Squad and SWAT teams have been sent to Platte County High School in Bailey. 9NEWS September 27, 2006.




Around noon, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department sent its bomb squad and its SWAT unit to the school after reports of possible gun fire inside the school. Park County requested assistance from Jefferson County assistance.

Park County Sheriff's Department has confirmed there is one man, with a gun, inside the school. He has claimed to have a bomb. They have also confirmed he has a female hostage. They are also reporting that there are no known injuries at this point.

Reportedly the Park County Sheriff says they received a 911 call from the man inside the school telling them he had the hostage. Law enforcement officers are moving through the evacuated buildings searching for any people left inside and trying to assess the situation.

Platte Canyon High School has been evacuated and both sides of highway 285 have been closed to facilitate the evacuations between mile markers 218 and 222.

Four Jefferson County schools and at least one Park County school are in lockdown because of the hostage situation.

The schools in Jefferson County are: Conifer High School, West Jefferson Middle School, West Jefferson Elementary School and Elk Creek Elementary School.

Fitzsimmons Middle School has been locked down in Park County.

The school districts are not releasing any information about where evacuated students are being taken. There is no information on what parents, with students in the affected schools, should do at this point. 9NEWS will provide details for parents as soon as we receive them.

9NEWS and 9NEWS.com will continue to update this story as more details become available.

Authorities in Park County say they had received a 911 call from the gunman saying he was holding a hostage.

Police are searching the evacuated building to clear it.

 

damn thats crazy!!

was he on a bike?

 

LOl i knew it would happen.

Nah he wasent....But i really dont post anywhere else on here, so i posted it here

 

That's fucked up....

Hopefully the guy will shoot himself or the Military needs to send a highly trained spec op that will go in and knife his ass!

 

YOU GOT KNIFED NOOB!!!

FUCKIN PWNED!!!

 

sooo why is this in the bike forum?

 

just heard on the news that the gunman shot one of the students then shot himself...

 

Damn, RIP student but damn If I didnt call they guy shooting himself.

 

The Sheriff's Department breached the classroom. Gunman shot a hostage and then himself.

Last report on girl was an airflight to hospital and when she got there the nurses were giving her CPR


There is a rumor on some other board that the girl was shot in the head and died as a result, but its not confirmed.


Never mind....i just checked myself

She did die

CNN.com - Gunman, hostage dead after high school siege - Sep 27, 2006

 

wasn't the first time