‘Unfounded’ threat leads to North Bay school lockdown Wednesday

(BCN) — A message allegedly sent over a Corte Madera school’s handheld radios led to a campus lockdown and a search of a mall on Wednesday, according to police.

Officers with the Central Marin Police Authority responded in the morning to a report of a suspicious circumstance at the Cove elementary school in Corte Madera.

According to police, the reporting party said that an unknown person had announced “someone may have a gun” over the school’s radios. The school was in session with summer camp children and occupied by multiple students and staff, police said.

The school was placed on lockdown, a rollcall of campus staff was carried out, and officers arrived to thoroughly search the premises.

Ultimately it was determined that no staff had made the announcement, nor did they see anyone on campus with a firearm. The report was deemed unfounded.

A short time later, Central Marin officers joined the Mill Valley Police Department and the Marin County Sheriff’s Office to respond to a report of an active shooter at The Village shopping center in Corte Madera. Officers arrived and made contact with the reporting party, but determined that this was a secondhand report from the previous call at the school and not an active shooter incident, police said.

A complete sweep of the mall was carried out and no evidence of any threat was found.

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