BOISE, Idaho — The Boise Police Department (BPD) asked three schools to shelter in place while they responded to a call. According to BPD, officers were responding to a call near Apple St. in east Boise on Friday Sept. 22 around 2:45 p.m.
Liberty and White Pine elementary schools and Timberline High School were sheltering in place from 2:48 p.m. until 3:16 p.m.
BPD said the area was cleared by 3:45 p.m. and there was no threat to the public.
"Officers are in a neighborhood off Apple Street responding to a suicidal subject with a firearm who called into dispatch," BPD wrote in an email. "Officers asked nearby schools to shelter in place while they secure the scene."
Anyone in crisis can call the Idaho Crisis and Suicide Hotline at 988.
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