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SWAT team responds to cap gun at Wash. school

The Columbian
Published: February 3, 2010, 12:00am

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — The initial 911 report from the Vancouver, Wash., elementary school was alarming: shots fired at a school playground. That brought police patrol and SWAT officers scrambling Tuesday morning — only to find the weapon was a bright orange cap gun.

Police and school officials say a second-grade boy at Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary School brought the gun and apparently pointed it at two 6-year-olds and fired it, discharging smoke.

The two students told a playground supervisor that another student had fired a gun at them — and the response took off from there.

Police spokeswoman Kim Kapp says, “When you have that type of a call, there’s no waiting.”

A SWAT sweep and school evacuation began but officials say students were back in class by 9 a.m. after police confirmed the “gun” was only a toy.

District spokeswoman Kris Sork says school officials met with the child and his parents to determine possible punishment.

The school serves kindergartners through fifth graders.

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Information from: The Columbian, http://www.columbian.com

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