child dies at pittsfield township school

So, you're not scared anymore, and you know that there isn't a threat.

'It was weird, because it wasn't- It's, everything is over.

“A lot of people went home, so it was emptier than usual,' Klepetar said. We kind of went about our day again.”Īfter the building was cleared, the environment inside PHS was surreal. And so they came in every classroom, and they just checked, and then they left. And then eventually, we heard that the police arrived and they were going to walk around the school and clear all the classrooms. And then we kind of continued to sit there and just listen to the walkie talkie for updates. We sat there for a while, and then the principal came back on the loudspeaker and told us that the lockdown was a response to a call or a threat. It's really horrifying, because everyone's really scared. 'And you can kind of hear the teachers running around the hallways, kind of clearing the bathrooms in the locker rooms. “They update on the walkie talkie,' she said. With scenes of grieving families and body bags from the Nashville shooting and the hundreds of similar school shootings in the United States that have preceded it running through her head, Klepetar sat at her desk in PHS Tuesday waiting to see what would happen next. 'So, I was definitely already thinking about it.” “I was scrolling around Instagram last night, and I was seeing all of these posts about a school shooting that happened, and I was already upset and angry that this is something that people have to worry about, and that this is something that genuinely kills people, because it's devastating,' she told WAMC. The unexpected lockdown announcement came with news of the school shooting in Nashville a day before fresh in Klepetar’s mind. And then our teacher like walks over to the door and closes it and says it's not a drill, and we're kind of just stuck there.” 'We had a lockdown drill the day before, and we were like, there's no way that there's a drill two days in a row.

And we were all kind of like, obviously, horrified, but also just really confused,' said Ellen Klepetar, 15, who attends PHS. “I heard the principal come on the loudspeaker and say, lockdown, lockdown. While the claims were quickly proven to be a hoax, the emergency response plunged hundreds of young people into terror. Tuesday morning, police across Berkshire County received calls that school shootings were underway at Drury High School in North Adams, Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington, and Pittsfield High School in Pittsfield.

Child dies at pittsfield township school