Kalama schools were placed under a temporary lockdown Monday after a student allegedly threatened violence against a group of students demonstrating support for the LGBTQ+ community in front of the middle/high school, police said.
Kalama police said officers were called to the school around 12:30 p.m. after a student witness reported the alleged threat to administrators.
The juvenile suspect supposedly commented to a different student, not connected to the demonstration, that he had a desire to aim an automatic machine gun in the group’s direction, police stated in aPolice said a gun was not seen, and the student reportedly said he had intended to go home. Police did not find the student at the school but off-campus. He was taken to the police department for questioning.
Criminal charges will be forwarded to the county prosecutor’s office, according to the Kalama Police Department., dozens of students at the school walked out of class in support of a transgender student who had been assaulted at the school on June 6 and treated at the hospital. The assault, in which students said the victim was repeatedly kicked with steel-toe boots, reportedly occurred just as students were leaving for the day.
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