Officers respond to Tahoe school lockdown

Staff Reports
March 27, 2008

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More than a dozen Douglas County law enforcement personnel, including Sheriff Ron Pierini, are at Whittell High School and Zephyr Cove Elementary School responding to a report of a man dressed in black carrying a rifle on the hill above the schools at Zephyr Cove.
The schools are on lockdown which means no one is allowed to enter or leave the campuses.
Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Jim Halsey said the sheriff’s office was called at 11:28 a.m. by an aide at Zephyr Cove Elementary who reported seeing a man dressed in black carrying a weapon that resembled a rifle.
Halsey said members of the Special Weapons and Tactics team and canine units were on scene.
Halsey said any parents showing up at the schools are being directed to Zephyr Cove Park until the campuses have been cleared.
A school officials said students and teachers responded to the lockdown in an orderly fashion and the situation was calm inside the classroom.