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.”