Reports of an active shooter at a North Carolina high school Friday morning were caused by the sound of a malfunctioning water heater, according to an official.
“There’s no active shooter,” county emergency management director Tom Collins told Star News. “It’s a malfunctioning water heater.”
But the reports of the sound promoted a school lockdown and a massive police presence at Topsail High School, located in Pender County.
Around 6:30 a.m., police received reports of a possible active shooter on scene.
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The parent of a child who attends Topsail High School told WWAY that he received a call from the school district telling him all schools on the eastern side of Pender County were lockdown.
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The high school is in the town of town of Hampstead and part of Pender County, around 177 kilometres southeast of the North Carolina’s capital, Raleigh.
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