Police are now in the process of sweeping the school. According to a press conference held at around 3pm Eastern time, officers are still finding groups of students and teachers hiding inside classrooms.
‘I was in my classroom and someone pulled the fire alarm and we thought it was a fire drill and we ran out and they told us to go back in a classroom,; student Cindy Rodriguez, 17, told NBC News. ‘We’re scared.’
Ayn Dietrich, an FBI spokesperson in Seattle, said the agency had personnel on their way to the scene to help authorities with the investigation.