A town official says a gunman at an upstate New York high school has taken the principal hostage.
Pine Plains Town Supervisor Gregg Pulver tells CNN that students at Stissing Mountain High School are safe. The school is about 90 miles north of New York City.
The school remains on lockdown. Pulver says police are in contact with the gunman. He says the gunman is an adult, not a student.
State police and Dutchess County sheriffs deputies released no other information.
Margaret Hart, who lives across the street from the school, says police cars are in the neighborhood and helicopters are flying overhead. She says the area around the school has a lot of woods and "a lot of places to hide."
Update: They arrested him.
Pine Plains Town Supervisor Gregg Pulver tells CNN that students at Stissing Mountain High School are safe. The school is about 90 miles north of New York City.
The school remains on lockdown. Pulver says police are in contact with the gunman. He says the gunman is an adult, not a student.
State police and Dutchess County sheriffs deputies released no other information.
Margaret Hart, who lives across the street from the school, says police cars are in the neighborhood and helicopters are flying overhead. She says the area around the school has a lot of woods and "a lot of places to hide."
Update: They arrested him.
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- Chod77
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holy crap, I hope no one gets hurt in all of this!
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my uncle works there... it is amazing how quickly they put everything on lockdown to protect the bystanders..... Kudos to the police and staff.... as of 10:10 there is still a standoff but one person in custody........
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- regjoeschmo
- 10 days ago
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I live close to that school. It scares me to think that this could happen so close to home. Thank God they handled this quickly and careully.
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- earlybirdie
- 10 days ago
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UPDATE: CNN is on at work and about 15 minutes ago they said he's been detained.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/10/ny.high.school.gunman/index.html
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- hell0everything
- 10 days ago
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dude! america needs to awcknowledge where their children are, psyochologically speaking...take some responsibility on the sorts of things their exposed to +(poor principal!
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- barbie_chola89
- 10 days ago
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