Police killed student outside Wisconsin school after reports of someone with a weapon, official says

Police shot and killed a Wisconsin student outside a middle school after receiving a report of someone with a weapon while class was in session Wednesday.

Police shot and killed a Wisconsin student outside a middle school after receiving a report of someone with a weapon Wednesday, the state's attorney general said in the first law enforcement briefing on gunshots that sent children fleeing and prompted an hourslong lockdown of local schools.

Authorities in Mount Horeb had previously said an active shooter who never got inside the building was “neutralized” outside the school in Mount Horeb. State Attorney General Josh Kaul said at the briefing Wednesday evening that no one else was harmed and that an investigation is continuing.

“This incident took place outdoors. The subject in this case never gained entry,” he said.

Authorities at the briefing described the student as a juvenile male but did not provide an age or any information about which of the Mount Horeb district's schools he attended.

Kaul declined to answer several questions about what happened once police responded, including whether the student had fired a weapon, what type of weapon he might have had, and whether he had made an effort to get inside the school building.

Authorities said multiple Mount Horeb officers, who wore body cameras, had fired weapons but they did not say how many.

Police remained on the scene hours after the incident and students were kept locked down in buildings late into the afternoon before slowly being released to family members.