Toy Gun Prompted Pasco High School Shutdown: Sheriff

WESLEY CHAPEL, FL — After reports of a weapon on campus, Wesley Chapel High School shut down and was put on a “controlled campus status” on Wednesday afternoon, just for investigators to learn that the scare was over a toy gun, the Pasco Sheriff’s Office wrote in a social media post.

Deputies searching the campus found the toy gun in a bathroom, the agency said.

Normal school operations resume after it was found that there was no threat.

Deputies stayed on campus for the remainder of the school day to help with a controlled dismissal as a precautionary measure.

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