Wisconsin student suspect shot, killed by police outside middle school during active shooter lockdown

A student successful Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, was changeable and killed by constabulary extracurricular a mediate schoolhouse aft it was placed connected lockdown for an progressive shooter threat connected Wednesday.

FOX 6 successful Milwaukee reported that Attorney General Josh Kaul confirmed a antheral student had a limb extracurricular Mt. Horeb Middle School. Responding officers utilized deadly unit connected nan student, who was not capable to summation introduction into nan school, Kaul added.

The lawyer wide noted that nan fishy was a student successful nan schoolhouse district, though he did not corroborate nan boy’s property aliases nan schoolhouse he attended.

The Mt. Horeb Area School District turned to societal media conscionable aft 11 a.m. connected Wednesday, saying schools passim nan territory were placed connected lockdown. The posts besides told family members to refrain from going to immoderate of nan schools successful nan district.

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A Wisconsin schoolhouse territory said a personification it described arsenic an progressive shooter was extracurricular a mediate schoolhouse successful Mt. Horeb connected Wednesday but nan threat was "neutralized" and nary 1 wrong nan building was injured. (FOX6 Milwaukee )

"An first hunt of nan mediate schoolhouse has not yielded further suspects," a station astir noon said. "As importantly, we person nary reports of individuals being harmed, pinch nan objection of nan alleged assailant."

An earlier station from nan territory reported "the threat has been neutralized extracurricular of nan building."

A suspected student shooter was changeable and killed by constabulary astatine Mt. Horeb Middle School successful Wisconsin connected May 1, 2024. (Google Maps)

Details astir what happened were not provided by nan district.

On Wednesday evening, nan territory announced it was canceling schoolhouse connected Thursday.

"In an effort to proceed nan treatment process, we are canceling schoolhouse for tomorrow, Thursday, May 2, 2024," nan district's Facebook station read.

The Mt. Horeb Police Department did not respond to inquiries from Fox News Digital seeking further accusation astir nan incident.

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Mt. Horeb is astir 25 miles westbound of nan authorities superior of Madison.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.