Overview
- School administrators placed the campus on hold after a student report led staff to find and confiscate a loaded gun, and an identified student was detained by school resource officers.
- SROs with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and Willis ISD administrators are completing an investigation and the district said it will provide updates later today.
- The hold was expected to be lifted shortly and school officials told families that students and staff were safe during the response.
- This is the second gun discovery at the high school in about a month, following an Aug. 26 incident that also involved a loaded firearm found in a student’s backpack.
- Parents have expressed fear and called for stronger checks on campus, and the sheriff’s office said it added deputies and will increase patrols as a precaution while the investigation proceeds.