For the third time this school year, students at Oakland’s Skyline High School were put into a “secure school protocol” this afternoon.
Parents received a notice at 1:57 p.m. of a medical emergency that involved teachers and students being put into the secure protocol, where they are not allowed to leave the classroom they’re in.
A message sent at 2:07 p.m. said, “The lockdown is lifted and we will be dismissing students at the gate.”
Rumors swirled after a post to the Citizen app at 1:41 p.m. that firefighters had “received a report of a person who was shot or stabbed” at the Skyline location.
Multiple emergency vehicles responded to the scene, and The East Bay Times reported that one student had been shot by another, citing “authorities.”
Michael Hunt, a spokesperson for the Oakland Fire Department, declined to comment to The Oaklandside, referring us to OUSD and to OPD.
Spokespeople for OUSD and the OPD have not yet responded to queries, but OPD is expected to address the public shortly.
Today’s lockdown was the third of the school year for Skyline students. On September 26, students were sent into secure protocol when OPD responded to a report of a student on campus with a firearm; that report was determined to be false. Then on Nov. 4, students were put into secure protocol again as, Skyline said, the school’s security team was seeking to remove “an upset parent on campus.”
Skyline has had a spate of violent incidents in the last few years, including a stabbing that injured a student in 2022, a shooting in 2023 with no apparent victims, and a shooting after graduation in 2024 that injured three people. Two weeks ago, the campus was locked down after what turned out to be a false report of a student with a weapon on campus.
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