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Police Give All-Clear at Mainz’s Willigis-Gymnasium After Active-Shooter Alarm

Students are being supervised at designated sites pending a return to class.

Overview

  • The alarm was triggered at about 7:40 a.m. shortly before the school day began.
  • Officers searched the entire campus and reported no indication that a threat existed.
  • All students and staff were accounted for at prearranged locations, with plans to return to classrooms after a briefing.
  • Assembly points were set up at the Mainzer Stephanskirche and the neighboring Maria Ward School, and a parent contact site was established at the Mainz Zitadelle.
  • Willigis-Gymnasium is a long-established boys’ school run by the Diocese of Mainz and shares its site with a Realschule.