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Gun was reportedly fired at San Francisco school

UPDATE: 8/30/2018 2:01 p.m .Police say they have arrested three people and recovered a gun at a San Francisco high school that was locked down after a report of a shot fired on campus.

The San Francisco Police Department said Thursday that the threat has ended at Balboa High School in the city’s Excelsior neighborhood.

Police did not disclose whether the suspects are students.

San Francisco Unified School District spokeswoman Laura Dudnick said there was one reported minor injury of a student.

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A San Francisco schools spokeswoman says a high school was locked down because of a report that a gun was fired on campus.

San Francisco Unified School District spokeswoman Laura Dudnick says there is a report of one minor injury at Balboa High School in the city’s Excelsior neighborhood.

Police spokeswoman Grace Gatapandan said the school on the south side of the city was placed under lockdown shortly after the report came in around 11:15 a.m.

Police could be seen surrounding the school with guns drawn. Three nearby schools were also placed on lockdown as a precaution.

School officials are asking parents not to come to the school because at this time.

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{“url”:”https://twitter.com/SFPD/status/1035257418567929856″,”author_name”:”San Francisco Police”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/SFPD”,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”&#gt;&#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/SFPD?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;#SFPD&#lt;/a&#gt; continues to investigate this incident at Balboa HS. Currently, there is no active threat. One person sustained a non-life threatening injury during this incident. Two people have been detained, and one firearm has been recovered. See &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/SFUnified?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;@SFUnified&#lt;/a&#gt; for related updates. &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/SF?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;#SF&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/p&#gt;– San Francisco Police (@SFPD) &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/SFPD/status/1035257418567929856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;August 30, 2018&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/blockquote&#gt;n&#lt;script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″&#gt;&#lt;/script&#gt;n”,”width”:550,”height”:null,”type”:”rich”,”cache_age”:”3153600000″,”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”provider_url”:”https://twitter.com”,”version”:”1.0″}

{“url”:”https://twitter.com/SFPD/status/1035243739919183872″,”author_name”:”San Francisco Police”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/SFPD”,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”&#gt;An incident has occurred at Balboa HS. &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/SFPD?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;#SFPD&#lt;/a&#gt; is on scene. Balboa HS, James Denman MS & Leadership School are on lock down at this time. SFPD PIO &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/OfficerGrace?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;@OfficerGrace&#lt;/a&#gt; is responding, Media staging area will be at the intersection of Onondaga & Cayuga Ave. &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/SF?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;#SF&#lt;/a&#gt; &#lt;a href=”https://t.co/rfH4wmz8FA”&#gt;pic.twitter.com/rfH4wmz8FA&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/p&#gt;– San Francisco Police (@SFPD) &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/SFPD/status/1035243739919183872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;August 30, 2018&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/blockquote&#gt;n&#lt;script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″&#gt;&#lt;/script&#gt;n”,”width”:550,”height”:null,”type”:”rich”,”cache_age”:”3153600000″,”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”provider_url”:”https://twitter.com”,”version”:”1.0″}

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