Lassiter High School went into code yellow status for a while on Thursday after a student reported seeing another student with a weapon in an off-campus situation, according to the Cobb County School District.
In a message that went out to Lassiter parents Thursday afternoon, principal Chris Richie said that “we stopped all movement and secured the building until we were able to verify the student was not in the vicinity of Lassiter.”
In a code yellow situation, the outside doors to a school are closed while classes and activities continue inside.
Richie further said that “there is no reason to believe that our campus, students, or staff are in any danger.”
He did not indicate where off-campus the incident occurred; a Cobb school district spokesman also would not elaborate when contacted by East Cobb News. She said the code yellow situation was in effect at Lassiter “for a period of time” and confirmed that the weapon was a handgun.
She added that “teachers continued to teach and students continued to learn with minimal interruption to the school day while both the Cobb School Police Department and Cobb Police investigated.”
Related stories
- No timebables yet for Eastvalley ES, Walton HS sports projects
- 3 East Cobb principals to retire at the end of the school year
- Cobb schools details learning options for 21-21 year
- Cobb school board fires district’s longtime legal firm
- East Cobb parent wants mask mandate to be dropped
- Cobb schools report 32 confirmed new cases of COVID-19
- Cobb schools make calendar changes for staff vaccines
Get Our Free E-Mail Newsletter!
Every Sunday we round up the week’s top headlines and preview the upcoming week in the East Cobb News Digest. Click here to sign up, and you’re good to go!
