Overview

• Deputies were dispatched to Ranch View Middle School in Douglas County around 11:15 a.m. after reports of a loud pop and smoke from a nearby bedroom window at a home next to the campus.
• School resource officers placed the school on a secure perimeter as patrol units investigated the report.
• The resident told deputies a round discharged during cleaning of a gun he believed was unloaded, with a chambered round not removed.
• The bullet traveled through the home's window and struck an exterior school door, and no injuries were reported.
• The resident is cooperating with the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, which says criminal charges are pending and the investigation remains active.