{"id":597662,"date":"2026-04-11T19:44:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597662\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T19:44:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:44:30","slug":"edmontons-jasper-place-high-school-placed-under-lockdown-after-student-hospitalized-suspect-in-custody-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597662\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton\u2019s Jasper Place High School placed under lockdown after student hospitalized; suspect in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edmonton police say officers responded to an incident at\u00a0Jasper Place High School\u00a0on Friday that left one student in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a suspect was located nearby and taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Jasper-Place-High-School-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-735711\"  \/>Police outside Jasper Place High School in Edmonton after it was placed under lockdown on April 10, 2026. (Zach Dafoe, CityNews) <\/p>\n<p>The injured student\u2019s condition and the extent of their injuries have not been released. No other injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton Public School Board told CityNews in a statement: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAround 12:15 p.m. Jasper Place School was placed in a lockdown at the request of the Edmonton Police Service due to an incident inside the school involving injuries to a student. When a school is in lockdown, the doors are locked and students and staff remain quiet in their classrooms with the lights off. Students and staff were safe as the police worked to resolve the situation.<\/p>\n<p>The Division takes incidents like this very seriously and the safety of students and staff is our top priority.\u00a0Edmonton Police Service continues to investigate the situation.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The school, along with several neighbouring schools, was placed under lockdown as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>Police say there is no ongoing threat to students or the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton police say officers responded to an incident at\u00a0Jasper Place High School\u00a0on Friday that left one student in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-597662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}