Stories of the Central Lockdown

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    On Tuesday, April 17, 2007, students in Central High School in Rapid City, SD were locked into a full-security mode for more than three hours - lights off, no leaving rooms, stay quiet. A report of a gun in the building had triggered the status, and though it was confirmed a hoax shortly after 1:00pm, the day imprinted a distinct mark on students. Here, many of them leave their stories.
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The guns made us understand

Posted by Mr. Sheehy on April 19, 2007




When I first heard that there was a lockout I was not sure that it was for real, I mean I thought it was just a drill or something, so I just hurried to my class. When I got to class my teacher said that if it was a drill they would not do it during passing time. So then I got a little nervous, but still not scared…then about 30mins later Mr. Jones said that there is a man in the school with a hand gun…that is when I got very nervous. I thought *&%$ this is for real.

He said to just stay calm, my class did for a while and about 2 hours in we all started to relax and watch TV. I can remember when the cops finally came to our class they came in and told us to line up and grab each others shoulder, the thing that made me scared was that he had very big guns – I mean like one guy had like a AK47 and a shotgun. I think that is when everyone really understood the situation.

- Sal

One Response to “The guns made us understand”

  1.   sal Says:

    i like this one

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