{"id":2166,"date":"2023-04-14T21:28:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T21:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2023-04-14T22:17:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T22:17:47","slug":"waukesha-north-gun-scare-teen-found-with-rifle-near-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2166","title":{"rendered":"Waukesha North Gun Scare: Teen Found With Rifle Near School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/waukesha-north-gun-rifle\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/waukesha-north-gun-rifle\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 17-year-old male who had a rifle in a backyard near Waukesha North High School was arrested by the Waukesha Police Department on Friday, April 14, 2023, police announced.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they secured area schools, \u201cmethodically searched\u201d for the suspect, and then \u201cwere able to engage in dialogue with the suspect to get him to peacefully surrender,\u201d the release says. The suspect\u2019s name and intentions were not released. It\u2019s not clear whether the teen was a student or why he had the rifle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudents were able to give a great description of the male and immediately notified the School Resource Officer,\u201d police noted.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_104290\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104290\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-104290 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/gun2-1024x894-1.jpg\" alt=\"waukesha north high school\" width=\"1024\" height=\"894\" title=\"waukesha north gun\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rifle found by waukesha police.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Waukesha police Capt. Dan Baumann, evidence is still being collected and charging decisions won\u2019t be made until at least Monday. \u201cIt goes without saying that the training and preparation we have with the school district paid off. To the officers who tenaciously investigated and kept those children safe, we sincerely thank you,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at approximately 12:56 p.m., when Waukesha police received a call about \u201ca male with what was described to officers as a rifle was observed in the backyard in the 200 blk of Greenmeadow Dr,\u201d Waukesha police wrote in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The police news release further explained: \u201cThe Waukesha North H.S. Administrative team place the school on a SECURE status. A SECURE status is when the learning environment status quo with the exception of a heightened awareness by staff, ensure no students or staff are outside and locking of the outside doors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was a large law enforcement response \u201cdeployed to the area to safeguard the schools,\u201d police wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they took the suspect into custody and retrieved the firearm while \u201d relaying real-time information, utilizing ReadyOP, to the leadership teams of the surrounding schools so they could make the best safety decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police praised students who \u201cobserved something and said something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/waukesha-north-gun-rifle\/ A 17-year-old male who had a rifle in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}