Perth school shooting —
A teenage boy has allegedly fired a gun at a private school, sending students and a nearby day care centre into lockdown .
Emergency services were called to a ‘firearm incident’ at Atlantis Beach Baptist College in Two Rocks, in Perth’s north, shortly before midday on Wednesday.
A boy, 15, was taken into custody by police after he allegedly opened fire as many as three times in the school carpark.
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The young man, a pupil at the school, has since been arrested. No one was injured.
Visibly distressed students, including young children, were seen rushing into the arms of waiting parents after several frightening hours trapped inside the school.
‘We heard police sirens, then we heard shouting,’ one student told Nine News.
‘Then we heard footsteps on the deck, which really scared me because I thought it was the guy coming.’
One distressed boy Riley, 14, told The West Australian his teacher locked the students in the cooking cupboard as the incident unfolded.
His mum raced to the school after getting a text from his teacher.
‘(The teacher) said they heard shots out in the carpark and the kids ran in and at first they were quite calm because they thought it was as joke.
‘But when they realised it was more serious they barricaded themselves in the cooking cupboard.
‘I said: ‘What’s going on?’ and she said there’s a shooter here. Then I just came straight up here.’
The mother added her traumatised son won’t be attending school on Thursday. The area remains cordoned off to the public.
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