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According to police, there has been an officer-involved shooting in the 300 block of North State College Boulevard, and the suspect has fled into a neighborhood. Local residents have been are urged to shelter in place, and Sycamore Junior High School has been placed on lockdown.
At this time, it is unclear what led to the shooting or who was involved in it. Patch reports that police are currently searching for a male suspect with tattoos on his face and neck with long black hair, wearing gray shorts.
Sycamore Junior High School is a junior high school located in Anaheim, California.
The lockdown at Sycamore Junior High School is just the latest in a string of lockdowns and/or shootings that have plagued the United States. Over the course of the past few years, shootings such as these have been a scourge upon the country and people have struggled with coming up with a solution. Lockdowns have become all too common as a means of protection when students and faculty are in danger and today is no different.
This lockdown follows incidents at Dodd Middle School in Connecticut, Windham Public Schools also in Connecticut, Pacoima Middle School in Los Angeles, Millennium Middle School in Florida, and US Grant High School in Oklahoma, which are just some of the places where events such as this have occurred.
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