Wakefield High principal: No threat found after report of shots fired

Wakefield High School Principal Malik Bazzell told parents, staff and reporters that there was no evidence to support a report of shots fired near the school.
Posted 12/5/2019, 5:02:43 PM Updated 12/5/2019, 5:03:49 PM

JUST MAKING SURE EVERYTHING WAS

SAFE.

THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT

ANYTHING HAPPENED OR ANYBODY

WAS ON THE SCENE AT ANY POINT.

RIGHT NOW ARE JUST KIND OF

WAITING UNTIL A COME UP WITH A

HOLDING PROCESS FOR PARENTS TO

CHECK THE KID THAT IF THEY WANT

TO CHECK THE KIDS OUT.

HOWEVER, THERE IS NO REASON TO

CHECK YOUR KID OUT.

WHAT I COULD UNDERSTAND UNDER A

SITUATION LIKE THIS WHY YOU

WOULD WANT TO.

RIGHT.

AND WE WILL SEND A MESSAGE OUT

VIA THE PHONE MESSAGE OR EMAIL.

[ INAUDIBLE ]

>> CAN THEY GO HOME NOW?

STAFF --?

>> [ INAUDIBLE ] WE WILL LET

YOU KNOW SOMETHING IN A FEW

MINUTES.

OKAY?

>> JUST SAYING YOU JUST HEARD

FROM THE PRINCIPAL.

MALIK MOSEL, SPEAKING TO

REPORTERS THERE AND ALSO SOME

OF THE PARENTS THERE ABOUT WHAT

UNFOLDED AND THE BOTTOM LINE,

THAT THERE WAS NO THREAT FOUND.

>> WISHER CONFIDENT SAYING THAT

THERE IS NO REASON TO CHECK

YOUR STUDENT OUT.

BUT CERTAINLY, THE HUMAN SIDE

OF THINGS, YOU COULD UNDERSTAND

WHY SOME PARENTS WOULD WANT TO.

SO,

>> IT ALL THOSE PARENTS WHO ARE

ALREADY THERE ON CAMPUS.

WAITING TO DO JUST THAT.

CERTAINLY, UNNERVING AND

RATTLING TO KNOW THAT THIS IS

SOMETHING THEY HAD TO GO

THROUGH.

UNFORTUNATELY, NOT A THREAT

THAT ALL THE STUDENTS ARE SAFE.

>>

>> YOU SEE THE BRIEFING OF LAW

ENFORCEMENT THERE.

I WAS JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO.

THE PRINCIPAL WAS SAYING THE

JANITOR ONE LAST CHECK AROUND

THE PERIMETER.

BUT THAT WAS THAT'S AFTER THE

ALL CLEAR WAS GIVEN.

THE PRINCIPAL WAS.

AND THEN THEY WERE DOING ONE

MORE SWEEP OUTSIDE.

SO, OBVIOUSLY HAVING.