When a pistol magazine was found on the floor of Sentinel High School on Monday morning, officials began a rapid response based on long hours of drills and training.
Safe Kids Missoula is reminding parents and caregivers to practice gun safety to help reduce the number of child injuries and deaths caused by unintentional shootings or suicide.
The lockdown at Missoula’s Sentinel High School ended at about noon on Monday, after a full pistol magazine was found inside the high school building at about 8:00 a.m.
After Missoula County Public Schools voiced their support for School Resource Officers assigned to high schools and middle schools, the Police Department echoed the positive results of the program.
The Missoula Police Department has been investigating multiple reports over the past couple month about vehicle break ins that occurred in and around the parking lots near Sentinel High School.
Sentinel High School students recently submitted an idea for the Verizon Innovative Learning App Challenge and won the award for best in State.
MCPS Superintendent Mark Thane said the computer science classes were instituted as part of the STEM (Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) program, and that Sentinel students have excelled in the technology...