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“As soon as I heard the shots, I hit the deck,” he said. “There’s always shootings over here on this block.” Fox News has reached out to the police department and Aurora Public Schools.
Investigators recovered multiple gunshot rounds from different calibers, Wilson said. She said it was not clear if the shooting was gang-related but officers were ruling nothing out.
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The school campus was put on a secure perimeter, police said.
The department initially said the school was placed on lockdown before issuing a correction. It did not describe how a secure perimeter is different from a lockdown.
“We are disgusted by this and other senseless acts of violence against our children who are the future of our community,” Aurora Public Schools said in a statement.
The local news outlet said Nome Park was the site of a gang-related shooting in 2019 in which a teenager is now charged with murder. Authorities will work with the school district to station more officers at the school as well as counselors, Wilson said.
An Aurora Public Schools football field.
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“We need to get through to our kids and figure out a way to stop this,” Wilson said. “There’s a violence crisis across the nation right now and so I think we all need to pay attention.”
