Crime Reports Bring Police to High School
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Police went to the Ventura High School campus twice Tuesday morning to investigate an alleged attempted attack on a teenage girl and a report that a student had a gun.
At about 10:25 a.m., a man with a knife tried to get into a car in the parking lot near the school football field, officials said. A teenage girl in a car, not a student at Ventura High, jumped out with the keys and ran away, school officials said.
Police were searching for a man described as slender and in his 20s, with brown hair, a goatee or beard and a plaid flannel shirt. They classified the alleged attack as either an attempted carjacking or kidnapping.
About an hour later, a resident near the school reported seeing a male student show a gun to two other boys while standing in the parking lot near the school’s baseball field. Seven police cruisers arrived and questioned the three boys.
After searching one of the boys’ cars, police found a pellet gun, Principal Larry Emrich said.
School officials were considering expulsion of the boy who allegedly brought the pellet gun to school. Meanwhile, Emrich said, the school will press ahead with plans to enclose the football field parking lot with a fence this summer. He is also considering putting surveillance cameras in the lot.
“We’re really vulnerable,” Emrich said, because outsiders can enter the lot unchecked.
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