Crime & Safety

Police Pick Up Teen With Pellet Gun Near Hilda Walker School

The Tinley Park intermediate school was in lockdown as police apprehended a boy with a pellet gun Thursday afternoon. No was hurt, and police say the incident is being handled as a juvenile case.

Hilda Walker Intermediate School was in lockdown Thursday afternoon, and a 15-year-old boy with a pellet gun was taken in to custody after Tinley Park police received a 911 call from a school staffer, according to village and school officials.

A 911 call around 2 p.m. Thursday, April 18, reported someone with a gun was seen around the back of Hilda Walker School, said Pat Carr, director of Tinley Park's Emergency Management Agency. A school staff member witnessed the teen with the pellet gun near a park and water retention area behind the school, said Tinley Park Police Chief Steve Neubauer. The staff member told police the teen was aiming the gun at the water but had not fired it, Neubauer added.

The lockdown of the school was issued once police were alerted, keeping all students in their classrooms, according to an emailed statement by Summit Hill School District 161 Supt. Barb Rains.

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Police set up a post at the school, and the teen was apprehended soon after, Rains said in the statement. At about 2:20 p.m., the school received the "all clear" signal from police, she added. The boy was never inside the school, Carr said. No one was injured.

The teen is currently in police custody and was with his parents as of 4 p.m. Thursday, Neubauer said. The incident is being handled as a juvenile case, he added.

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Patch Crime Editor Nick Swedberg contributed to this story.

 

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