Knolls Vista Elementary locked down Thursday after gun report

MOSES LAKE — Knolls Vista Elementary School was locked down for a part of Thursday morning after police responded to reports of a student with a gun.

“This morning at approximately 8:55 a.m., the Moses Lake Police Department responded to a 911 report of a student possessing a weapon on a bus,” according to a statement from McKenna Reis, spokesperson for the Moses Lake School District. “Police made contact with the bus as it was arriving to Knolls Vista Elementary. The student was immediately identified and detained.”

“We responded out there, but nothing significant happened,” said MLPD Capt. Mike Williams. “Some text messages suggests a kid on a bus had a gun, but no gun was found.”

The school district confirmed that no weapons were found on the bus or in the child’s possession.

As a result of the report, Knolls Vista went into the district’s “Secure the Building” procedure, and all students were brought inside until the situation could be assessed.

Williams said the child at the center of the report was not old enough to have been criminally charged with anything, and that police are still investigating the matter to determine exactly what happened and why.

“Officers are looking at the text messages,” he said.