Kentwood High School in Covington went into a brief lockdown early Thursday afternoon, Jan. 11 after a student reportedly had a pellet gun on campus.<\/p>\n
At 12:11 p.m., the King County Sheriff’s Office Communications Center received a 911 call about a student on campus with a firearm, according to an email from Sgt. Eric White, public information officer for the sheriff’s office.<\/p>\n
Covington Police, which contracts with the sheriff’s office, was dispatched to the school, 25800 164th Ave. <\/a>SE<\/a>, which is part of the Kent School District.<\/p>\n “The school was placed into lockdown for safety reasons,” White said. “The student was located, detained and the firearm was determined to be a pellet gun and not a real firearm.”<\/p>\n The school was then taken out of lockdown.<\/p>\n Covington Police arrested the student for investigation of possessing a dangerous weapon on school facilities, White said.<\/p>\n The incident remains an active and open investigation, White said. He said he did not have information to release about the gender or age of the student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Covington Police detain student in Thursday afternoon, Jan. 11 incident; lockdown lifted <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":67433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67432"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=67432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}