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Date of publication: June 09, 2022 • 4 hours ago • 4 minutes of reading Kingston Police are verifying the identities of students and staff who returned to Frontenac High School after the school was closed on Thursday. Photo by Elliot Ferguson / The Whig-Standard

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A 13-year-old has been charged by Kingston police after being called to Frontenac High School after a man was seen with a firearm outside the school.

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Kingston police said in a press release that the young teenager was seen with three others outside the school. When they were located, the school administration was notified and the police were called around 11:10 a.m. Police responded immediately, surrounded the school and examined the surveillance material. The video showed the young man with a firearm that appeared to be a Glock pistol. The school was closed as police searched for the young man. The Limestone District School Board wrote on Twitter at about 11:35 p.m. that, “All staff and students are safe. “The police are on the spot and everything is under control.” A lock is when it is believed that there is a threat within a school. All interior and exterior doors are locked and no one is allowed to enter or leave. Everyone is hidden from view and all lights and cell phones should be turned off. “As the accused young man had not been spotted leaving the school on camera again, members of the Kingston Police Emergency Unit conducted a thorough search inside the school to locate the man,” police said. Police later learned that the four young men had abandoned ownership of Frontenac High School and had divorced. Police thought they may have headed to Bayridge High School, Bayridge Public School or Holy Cross High School. All schools were placed in a holding and safe as a result. Hold and safety is when a threat is believed to be outside the school. Staff and students are transported inside and all external doors are locked. No one is allowed to enter or leave and normal activities continue inside.

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As the police searched for the young men, they asked the parents at 12:30 pm not to go to schools, assuring that everyone inside was safe. About 25 minutes later they said the incident had been resolved. In a police press release sent later in the day, police explained that they located one of the young men at their home in the far west at about 12:10 p.m., but they did not have the gun. Police then found the other three youths and one of them had a Glock BB pistol. The 13-year-old was accused by the police of possessing an imitation weapon dangerous to public peace and carrying a weapon. The young teenager was taken into custody to appear in bail court the next day. Frontenac 11th grader Hailey Thompson was in the hallway for lunch when the call for a lockdown first came. At first he thought it was a drill, but realized that the administration would not do it during lunch. “Then a teacher pushed us into a room and said it was for our safety and she looked terrified, so we knew it was not a drill,” Thompson said. “Then the cops came to the classroom doors after we sat there for a while, telling us to lock the door. So we started pushing things in front of the door, and then we sat there for over an hour, scared, and nobody told us what was going on. “We were afraid for our friends and brothers. We did not know what was happening. “ Frontenac student Zachary Bathurst said he and his French classmates heard a loud noise outside before entering a lockdown for an hour.

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“It was almost like falling to the ground – it was not like hitting a gun – it was almost like having a book and hitting it on the ground,” Bathurst said. At 11:50 a.m., I do not know if anyone was trying to be funny, but we heard someone screaming “oh!” outside.” Frontenac 9th grader Anthony Agiala said he had a bar with his friends and a janitor. He said that after all the recent events in the US, his mind went straight to the school sniper. “We just started grabbing all these things, like a storage unit, and we started pushing them towards the door, and we just sat there,” Ayala said. Last month, there were eight school shootings in the United States, most notably one in which 19 elementary school students and two teachers were killed in Uvalde, Texas. “People made jokes about it by posting on their stories (on social media), but it wasn’t really funny,” Thompson said. “With everything happening in the (United States), just scrolling through Twitter and seeing so many things about school shootings, then you get into this lockdown and you don’t know what’s going on. “We were just texting our parents and friends.” [email protected] twitter.com/StephattheWhig – with archives from Elliot Ferguson, The Whig-Standard Kingston Police at Frontenac Secondary School on Thursday, June 9, 2022. Photo by Elliot Ferguson / The Whig-Standard Kingston Police at Frontenac Secondary School on Thursday, June 9, 2022. jpeg, KI

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