Edhat Staff
Update by the Santa Barbara Police Department
5:30 p.m., September 14, 2022
On September 14, 2022, around 1:00 pm, the Santa Barbara Police Combined Communications Center received a single call about an active shooter situation at Bishop Diego High School, located at 4000 La Colina Road.
Within minutes of the 9-1-1 call, dozens of Santa Barbara Police Officers, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Deputies, and California Highway Patrol Officers immediately responded to the school for the reported incident.
The first group of officers arrived on the scene and immediately searched for a potential active shooter. A command post was established nearby, and students started to evacuate the school at the direction of school administrators. School officials quickly conducted a student and staff headcount. They reported to law enforcement that all students and faculty were safely accounted for. A thorough search was conducted of all interior buildings and exterior portions of the property.
During the search, law enforcement observed no signs or evidence of any active shooter incident. Scene commanders determined the incident a false report and notified school officials that students could return to their classrooms.
Photo: SBPD
The Santa Barbara Police Department is currently looking into the location and identity of the caller that made this false report. Currently, it is believed the caller is not a student or anyone directly associated with the high school. Detectives are contacting the FBI to assist in the investigation.
The Santa Barbara Police Department takes any situation involving our students and children in our community very seriously. Any report of an active shooter in the city will always render a very large and immediate law enforcement response. In this situation, thankfully, it was a false report. Regardless, any false report of this nature unnecessarily draws first responder resources away from those that genuinely need help. This false report will not be taken lightly and will be thoroughly investigated.
We thank our allied law enforcement and first responder agencies for assisting SBPD with this incident.
Update by the Santa Barbara Police Department
2:00 p.m., September 14, 2022
FALSE REPORT of an active shooter at Bishop Diego High School. ALL STUDENTS AND STAFF ACCOUNTED FOR and SAFE. Officers, Deputies, and CHP searched the campus. ZERO EVIDENCE of an incident.
False report is under investigation. More information will follow.
Photo by Scanner Andrew
Reported by Scanner Andrew
1:09 p.m., September 14, 2022
A reported active shooter was called in at Bishop Diego High, but there has been no indication of a shooter on campus.
Photo by Scanner Andrew
Reported by an edhat reader
1:15 p.m., September 14, 2022
Husband stopped at stop sign at Bishop Diego High school there were at least 8 police cars, 2 under cover, and 3+ pulling up w/ lights a sirens. He saw 3 police walking down hallway with guns in hand crowded around a classroom.
Widespread gun violence and a militarized police force makes swatting a uniquely American problem.
If this is a uniquely American problem, why did the London Police Services create a new policy today after multiple recent swatting incidents?
CONSERVATIVE – Does England have mass shootings in schools like we do? Any other developed countries? No. It IS a uniquely American problem. How is that even disputable?
CHILLIN – Are you suggesting we use less military equipment or just expressing an opinion? With widespread gun violence across the country, who benefits if the police show less of a military presence and don’t have the equipment to confront all possible criminal scenarios?
Doulie, just take the time to go and educate yourself as to the failings of American policing and how other countries are doing a better job.
If you really want to know don’t ask someone else to give you a headline version of a complex issue.
Over the last several decades, the NRA has devolved, from an association that provided some firearm educational services, into a rabid domestic terrorist organization, presided over by an arrant thief.
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