Lacey school briefly placed on lockdown after gunshots reportedly heard near campus

LACEY -- An elementary school in the North Thurston School District was briefly placed on temporary lockdown after staff reported hearing what sounded like gunshots in a nearby neighborhood.

The lockdown at Evergreen Forrest Elementary came just a day after a North Thurston High School student fired a revolver in the school. No one was injured in the shooting.

The elementary school released this note around 10 a.m. Tuesday morning:


It was not immediately known if someone actually fired a gun in a nearby neighborhood, or it just sounded like it.

The lockdown was lifted around 10:30 a.m., Thurston County sheriff's deputies tweeted.



This story will be updated as more information becomes available.