COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — The Commerce City Police Department responded to Adams City High School for an "incident" and confirmed no reported injuries, the department said Wednesday afternoon.
Joanna Small, spokesperson for the Commerce City Police Department, explained that the department initially responded to the school, which is located at 7200 Quebec Parkway, for a bomb threat and possible shots fired.
"That hasn't turned out to be the case," Small said.
About 200 police officers from around the Denver metro area cleared the school and did not find any threats. They did not find anybody with injuries.
"We're going through a very long, arduous process of clearing every single one of those rooms, the fields, all the public and common areas, and we're doing that more than once," Small explained.
Adams City High School was locked down initially. Adams County School District 14 said Lester Arnold High School was also on lockdown due to law enforcement at Adams City High School.
When asked about rumors about blood on the floor of the school, Small said she believes that was found in a locker room, but it is unrelated to this case. That remains under investigation.
Small also said a student who was inside the school was sleeping at the time police arrived and was surprised and initially not complying with the officers. That student was briefly detained until officers determined he was not connected with the bomb threat. He has been released to a parent.
"We just appreciate your patience," Small said, when asked about parents' frustration. "We're working with the school district to make sure our messaging is unified. It's a very tenuous situation. We have to be very careful about what we release, because we don't want to scare people unintentionally. Right now, we don't know whether or not this was a perceived or a real threat, but we haven't found anything to indicate that it was a real threat."
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