Report of weapon locks down Osceola High; KPD finds BB gun

UPDATE: Kissimmee Police Department reports the student found with the gun has been taken into custody.

A report of a weapon on the Osceola High campus forced that campus and a nearby elementary school and YMCA to go on lockdown early Friday afternoon.

The Kissimmee Police Department investigated and found a BB gun onto campus, a police official said.

At 11:27, KPD received a call from on campus that a weapon was on campus, Deputy Chief Betty Holland said. Officers reviewed video to locate the student with the gun. Police then searched the entire school and cleared the campus without further incident, with no other threats found.

The gun was not fired, and no one was threatened, Deputy Chief Holland said, also noting two other students may have been witnesses and were being questioned in regard to the incident.

Students were seen leaving the school, walking along Thacker Avenue around 1:45 p.m. A group said they were "happy to get out of that commotion on a Friday." KPD had Thacker closed southbound at Patrick Street to traffic as they cleared the scene; parents were seen parking along Emmett Street and other side streets to pick up students.

Due to their proximity to OHS, Thacker Avenue Elementary and the Kissimmee YMCA at Thacker and Mabbette Street were also placed on lockdown. A YMCA official said it put its protocols into place to protect children at the facility in its youth program.