Wellington High School lockdown from ‘credible’ danger possibly linked to White Supremacy / police

Wellington High School entered lockdown this morning. Photo / Richard Tindiller for RNZ

By Hamish Cardwell out of RNZ

A lockdown at Wellington Highschool was because of a “credible, serious” threars with possible links to whitened supremacy, police told the principal, so there is no evidence it targeted LGBTQI people.

Court this afternoon said a youth were originally charged in relation to an online threat normally saw the school put into lockdown.

The school went into lockdown this morning but the situation has now been quite resolved and police are talking to two people.

Sangre Dominic Killalea said police assured them this morning right before school away there had been a “credible, absolutely serious imminent threat” of a “school shooting”.

He considered that the threat did not come from a student at the school, and there was not a great deal he could say while the police staying investigating.

RNZ asked Killalea to confirm whether it had any association with white supremacists.

“That may perhaps be the one thing that police have shared with us, that there could be an association bring back, ” he said. “I can confirm the… far right… implication. lunch break

Some networking have reported LGBTQI community affiliates at the school were specifically concentrated, but police said no specialized group was targeted in the damage.

Killalea talked about a student had spoken to a staff member earlier in the week about a possible threat.

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“There was nothing in that as far as our company knew, there [were] no screenshots and no names, it has nothing actually to present to court.

“I prefer to be clear, we still don’t have any internet site between that and the incident suitable now, so we don’t know whether they are important at all and the police don’t know when related. ”

In an email to parents, Killalea wrote that “nothing that arm of the law reported to me this morning had a few link with the Rainbow community and also this should have been fact-checked with police”.

“I don’t know if there is any link and I am certain that we will learn more in coming days time – the only thing that police told me about the exact incident was that the person had wrote images on social media that interconnected him to far-right and Nacionalsocialista extremism. ”

Killalea told RNZ police aware the school about 8. 30am of any threat and an officer was at the school during the lockdown.

He said the performace from the students and staff turned out “fantastic”.

“The response in the situation was absolutely genital herpes virus treatments would want. The kids did what they would be asked to do with no fuss, tried all the instructions and acted necessary.

“Everyone I ran across was really calm and I went into different classrooms and the kids were smart – everyone responded really well. inches

Killalea wanted to say staff would be keeping an eye on students and as well as taking care of them in the coming occasions in case some were shaken with what happened.

Police arrest said anyone with information should call them on 105, quoting types of files number 201126/3921.

– RNZ