Andrew Hill High School In East San Jose Evacuated After Being Placed On Lockdown; Police Investigate Bomb Threat
SAN JOSE (KCBS/BCN) - Andrew Hill High School in San Jose is being evacuated after briefly having been placed on lockdown Friday afternoon. Students are being escorted to another school as police investigate a bomb threat made by a man seeking ransom, a school district administrator said.
Police spoke on the phone to "a strange man" who told them he placed a bomb on the school campus and the man is "asking for a ransom," East Side Union High School District superintendent Chris Funk said.
The approximately 2,000 students enrolled at Andrew Hill are being evacuated and escorted on foot a few blocks south to Sylvandale Middle School at 653 Sylvandale Ave., Funk said.
Police have also shut down the local neighborhood around the high school, at 3200 Senter by East Capitol Expressway, as a precaution, Funk said.
The school district has notified parents by electronic phone calls that they may pickup up their children at Sylvandale, Funk said.
At about 1:28 p.m., a police dispatcher received a call that a bomb might be on the high school campus, according to police Officer Albert Morales.
Police had students, teachers and staff locked into the buildings and the bomb squad was called in to investigate, Morales said.
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