Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor ROSEMEAD - A male phoned a Walmart Saturday morning and claimed he had a weapon and that he would shoot people, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.
Deputies flooded the shopping center and evacuated the Walmart, 1827 Walnut Grove Ave. After a search no armed suspect was found, according to Lt. David Kearney of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Temple Station. Deputies responded to the shopping center around 11:37 a.m. January 28. “He stated that he was in a Walmart and that he was going to shoot people and that he had a firearm,” Kearney told SGV CityWatch. The suspect “seemed a little off” when a sergeant spoke to him. A dog bark could be heard in the background of the suspect’s call. Walmart music was absent from the suspect’s phone, even though he claimed to be inside, Kearney told SGV CityWatch. “At one point there was a three-way conversation between a manager at Walmart, this male who had called it in and our desk,” Kearney told SGV CityWatch. “But we ended up pinging the manager’s phone” after an attempt to pin Employees and shoppers were allowed back in several hours after the ordeal began. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor ROSEMEAD - A vandal scribbled a bomb threat on a wall at Rosemead High School recently, but the threat was deemed not credible, authorities said. The threat written in black marker was found around 10:30 a.m. April 8. Administrators notified the school’s resource officer and the campus was searched, according to Edward Zuniga, El Monte Union High School District superintendent in a written statement. The threat was scribbled on a bathroom wall at the high school.
Sheriff’s deputies, school administrators and staff conducted the sweep. Classes were not disrupted during the search and students were not in harm's way, Zuniga said. Detectives are continuing to investigate the threat, according to Lt. Robert Hahnlein of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Temple Station. |
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