STARKVILLE — Police are still seeking a suspect in a Saturday shooting that shut down Starkville High School’s Midnight Madness football scrimmage.
With the suspect still at large, SHS has initiated a “controlled movement standby” for the next few days while the investigation continues, district Public Information Officer Haley Montgomery said.
The standby includes students being escorted to classrooms, using the intercom instead of the bell for class changes, eating lunches inside their classrooms, more monitoring of the halls and even altered class schedules.
“It’s basically designed just as a precaution,” Montgomery said. “There’s no specific threat, but … based on those incidents that happened on (Saturday), we are kind of varying the activity so as not to be quite as predictable as what people are used to.”
More than 800 Midnight Madness attendees were evacuated from Yellow Jacket Stadium after shots rang out nearby at about 12:27 a.m. No injuries were reported, Montgomery said, and school resource officers are working with Starkville Police Department to identify the suspects.
Shots were originally heard coming from the south end of campus in the direction of Lynn Lane, Montgomery said. Officers have not yet found any evidence the shots were actually fired on campus.
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