HILL CITY, S.D. (AP) - Two teenagers playing with airsoft guns led to a school shutdown in Hill City in the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
The Pennington County sheriff’s office says it got a call Friday morning from a school staffer that two people were in a field across the street from the Hill City Schools with what appeared to be a handgun and a rifle.
The school went into lockdown, and then secure status, for around an hour.
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Deputies caught up with the two males, ages 17 and 18, and determined that the weapons weren’t real, they were airsoft guns. The teens were not charged.
Airsoft guns are sometimes mistaken for the real thing, but they aren’t capable of firing live ammunition. They typically fire plastic pellets.
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