Dec. 11—Two 14-year-old boys were arrested Tuesday after threatening to take a gun and shoot up Pullman High School, Pullman police said.
The students, one from Pullman and the other from somewhere in Whitman County, were arrested on suspicion of intimidation and threatening to bomb or damage property. The two were booked into the Martin Hall Juvenile Detention Facility in Medical Lake, police said in a news release.
Officers responded to the high school around 8 a.m. Tuesday, where staff became aware of reported threats by a student to bring a gun to school and shoot a teacher, police said.
According to police, the suspects were intercepted at the school before the start of classes. The school was temporarily given “secure and teaching” status. The police found no firearm.
The police are investigating.
