Crater High put into secure status after weapon found on campus

CENTRAL POINT, Ore. – Crater High School was put in secure status Tuesday morning after a student brought a gun to school.

According to an alert that went out to parents, the school was secured as a precaution which means all classroom doors and perimeter doors were locked.

The Central Point Police Department says a school resource officer located the 16-year-old student who had a small-caliber gun. Police conducted a thorough investigation and say, “at no point were any direct threats made toward the school, students, or staff.”

“The motivation for this firearm, we don’t believe was to attack anybody with it. We believe that there’s the potential that this weapon was maybe motivated to be carried because of issues outside of the school, not within the school itself,” CPPD Lt. Josh Abbott said.

Lt. Abbott says police don’t believe the student obtained the weapon through family, but they’re still investigating how the student had the gun in the first place as the student has a previous criminal history.

The department says the teen involved was taken to the Jackson County Juvenile Detention Facility.

Police say there is no ongoing threat related to the incident.