Slinger Student Who Yelled 'I Have A Gun' In Custody; No Injuries

SLINGER, WI — A Slinger Middle School student has been taken into custody after claiming to have a gun Friday at school, according to authorities.

No one is injured and no gun has been found, the Washington County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook post. An all-clear was issued for the school just before 2 p.m.

"A student admitted to making the statement of 'I have a gun' in a crowded hallway," the Slinger School District said in a message to families. "That student is in police custody."

Slinger Middle School, Slinger High School and Slinger Elementary School were on lockdown as of 12:30 p.m. and the public was asked to avoid the area after the student yelled they had a gun, an earlier district message said, adding the student's claim, "may have been a case of a foolish statement coming from a possibly joking manner."

The incident occurred just days after a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 elementary students and two teachers dead.

Slinger Middle School parents were asked to meet at the staging area at Kettle Moraine Bowl, where they were to be escorted by state police at 2 p.m. to the school's lower parking lot for reunification with their children, according to the sheriff's office. Any parent responding after 2 p.m. was asked to go straight to the lower parking lot. Normal bus routes were also scheduled to be running, according to the district.