Overview
- Cedar Mount Academy in Gorton went into lockdown Thursday after staff reported a threat involving a child.
- Greater Manchester Police secured the site and said they had identified no ongoing risk to anyone in the school.
- An officer speaking to parents at the gates said a water pistol was discharged at a pupil and that no one was injured, a detail not included in the force’s public statement.
- During the response, alarms sounded inside, students stayed in classrooms, and parents gathered outside as police vehicles blocked the entrance.
- Officers are staying on site to reassure the school community and to investigate how an initial report of a child with a firearm led to the large police response.