An 18-year-old man has been charged in connection with an incident that prompted two Regina schools to go into “secure-the-building” mode on Thursday.
According to police, the man was charged with assault with a weapon. He was to appear in court Friday.
On Thursday at around 1:15 p.m., a police School Resource Officer was told about a person with a gun near a high school on the 1200 block of College Avenue. Police didn’t identify the school in a media release Friday, but previous releases had said the school was Balfour Collegiate.
The officer was told a man had shown a gun to a student and then left. The school immediately went into secure-the-building protocol.
Police traced the suspect to a house in the 1500 block of Bond Street and officers, along with the SWAT team, surrounded the house. Because the house was near an elementary school in the 1200 block of Ninth Avenue, that school also was placed in secure-the-building mode.
The police release didn’t identify that school, but it previously had been identified as Glen Elm Community School.
At around 3:30 p.m., the 18-year-old man left the house and was arrested. However, police didn’t find a gun.
The restrictions then were lifted at both schools.
The police release didn’t say if the man was a student at the high school or how he was connected to the institution or the student who saw the gun.