Tennessee high school evacuated over "hoax" shooting call, authorities say
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A Tennessee high school was evacuated Tuesday morning after authorities received what they later described as a "hoax" phone call that a shooting was about to take place at the school. No shots were fired at Volunteer High School in Hawkins County, Sheriff Ronnie Lawson said during an afternoon press conference.
One student suffered a seizure around the time of the call, but the two incidents were unrelated, Lawson told reporters. Just before 8 a.m., a person called 911 claiming to be a student who was armed with a handgun and in one of the school's bathrooms, Lawson said. The caller said he was about to go to the school's gymnasium and open fire.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.
The knock at the door came at nighttime on Mother's Day 2008 in Oregon, where Jessica Ellis' parents lived. It was around 9:20 p.m. and his wife, Linda, was already in bed; her father Steve Ellis told CBS News, that he thought someone let their animals out — but two soldiers in Class A uniforms were standing at the door.