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Posted on Thu, Mar. 24, 2005
GRAND FORKS: Police arrest man near Schroeder Middle School
School rolled into orderly, calm lock-down mode
By Tu-Uyen Tran
Herald Staff Writer
Heavily-armed Grand Forks police arrested David Luke Davis, 49, Wednesday afternoon after getting a tip that a man would be at Elroy Schroeder Middle School with a weapon around dismissal time.
The arrest took place less than a block from the school.
Davis is apparently the parent of a Schroeder student and has contacted the school in the past, which is how police were able to get his name and identify his car, even though the tip they got did not include that information.
Capt. Mike Kirby said officers have interviewed the suspect but cannot yet say anything about motivation.
Schroeder was in lock-down mode shortly before the arrest when administrators got word from police.
According to the procedure, administrators used a code word to alert teachers who gathered students in classrooms, locked doors, closed shades and turned the lights off. A gunman should have no clue which classroom was occupied.
Because of the early alert, police were already outside watching the entrances to the school.
Assistant superintendent Ron Gruwell said Davis never got close to the school, so students and staff were not in danger.
Davis, a tall, longhaired Caucasian, is charged with terrorizing, a class C felony; carrying a concealed weapon, a class A misdemeanor; and disorderly conduct, a class B misdemeanor. He has no known Grand Forks address.
The action took place near the intersection of 32nd Avenue South and South 10th Street. A lone officer waited by the house at that corner while his colleagues were nearby watching entrances to the school.
At around 1:45 p.m., Davis drove by in a blue-green four-door Mercury Tracer, Texas license plate X33-CKN. The waiting officer waved him down, at which point all the other patrol cars swarmed in for the arrest.
Arresting officers made an overwhelming show of force with six squad cars and four civilian cars. Several were armed with SWAT team-type weapons and a K-9 unit was on standby. Davis did not resist arrest.
In the back seat of the car, officers found an unloaded shotgun.
Quiet ruled school
The scene inside the school was relatively calm.
Math teacher Julie Holien said the lock-down was orderly in her classroom. The students, she said, "They were very good, very quiet. And they were scared, but not too scared."
Thoughts of the shooting at Red Lake High School in Minn., earlier this week, where 10 died, passed through Holien's mind and her students' as well. They thought it was odd that Schroeder seemed to face the same situation so soon after, Holien said.
Schroeder has an armed community resource officer assigned to the school.
Lock down procedures here were instituted shortly after shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., in 1999, she said, and there's been at least one drill.
Tran reports on City Hall. Reach him at (701) 780-1248 or [email protected].
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My mother taught at the Elementary school right across the street. That school was not warned I hear and there are some upset parents.
I think there is more to this story than is being told.
Could it be he may have just had a shotgun in his car? That's common in ND.
I know he was arrested but this story doesn't say if the guy actually went to shoot up the place.
He did have a child in the school.
I have questions.
Posted on Thu, Mar. 24, 2005
GRAND FORKS: Police arrest man near Schroeder Middle School
School rolled into orderly, calm lock-down mode
By Tu-Uyen Tran
Herald Staff Writer
Heavily-armed Grand Forks police arrested David Luke Davis, 49, Wednesday afternoon after getting a tip that a man would be at Elroy Schroeder Middle School with a weapon around dismissal time.
The arrest took place less than a block from the school.
Davis is apparently the parent of a Schroeder student and has contacted the school in the past, which is how police were able to get his name and identify his car, even though the tip they got did not include that information.
Capt. Mike Kirby said officers have interviewed the suspect but cannot yet say anything about motivation.
Schroeder was in lock-down mode shortly before the arrest when administrators got word from police.
According to the procedure, administrators used a code word to alert teachers who gathered students in classrooms, locked doors, closed shades and turned the lights off. A gunman should have no clue which classroom was occupied.
Because of the early alert, police were already outside watching the entrances to the school.
Assistant superintendent Ron Gruwell said Davis never got close to the school, so students and staff were not in danger.
Davis, a tall, longhaired Caucasian, is charged with terrorizing, a class C felony; carrying a concealed weapon, a class A misdemeanor; and disorderly conduct, a class B misdemeanor. He has no known Grand Forks address.
The action took place near the intersection of 32nd Avenue South and South 10th Street. A lone officer waited by the house at that corner while his colleagues were nearby watching entrances to the school.
At around 1:45 p.m., Davis drove by in a blue-green four-door Mercury Tracer, Texas license plate X33-CKN. The waiting officer waved him down, at which point all the other patrol cars swarmed in for the arrest.
Arresting officers made an overwhelming show of force with six squad cars and four civilian cars. Several were armed with SWAT team-type weapons and a K-9 unit was on standby. Davis did not resist arrest.
In the back seat of the car, officers found an unloaded shotgun.
Quiet ruled school
The scene inside the school was relatively calm.
Math teacher Julie Holien said the lock-down was orderly in her classroom. The students, she said, "They were very good, very quiet. And they were scared, but not too scared."
Thoughts of the shooting at Red Lake High School in Minn., earlier this week, where 10 died, passed through Holien's mind and her students' as well. They thought it was odd that Schroeder seemed to face the same situation so soon after, Holien said.
Schroeder has an armed community resource officer assigned to the school.
Lock down procedures here were instituted shortly after shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., in 1999, she said, and there's been at least one drill.
Tran reports on City Hall. Reach him at (701) 780-1248 or [email protected].
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My mother taught at the Elementary school right across the street. That school was not warned I hear and there are some upset parents.
I think there is more to this story than is being told.
Could it be he may have just had a shotgun in his car? That's common in ND.
I know he was arrested but this story doesn't say if the guy actually went to shoot up the place.
He did have a child in the school.
I have questions.
