Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Colorado reporters of a shooter in the school with shots fired and at least 5 students hostage so far.
Now the webcast said that they're trying to verify if it's in the middle school not the high school? Tech difficulties... so he's talking aloud alone... he can hear the guys on the ground and in the helicopter, we can't.
radio dispatch reports starting at about 11:45 a.m. indicated that an adult male had fired a shot in a high school second-floor classroom after a teacher had refused to do what he asked.
Jan Howard, assistant to school district superintendent Jim Walpole, stated that the high school, and possibly the middle school, was in lockdown mode, meaning no one could enter or leave the building except for authorized personnel.
The dispatcher described a situation in which the male had a "black squarish looking gun and fired one shot when the teacher refused to do what he asked."
At 11:50 a.m., the dispatcher said that the teacher had left the room five minutes before, but that students were still in the room with the man. Howard could not confirm whether a shot had been fired.