UPDATE: School cleared. Pasco High play, events canceled after gun threat nearby

Police have cleared Pasco High School after a threat was made Thursday during a baseball game.

All students were evacuated to the stadium and are safe, said Shane Edinger, Pasco School District’s communications director.

The school’s opening night of the play “Stand and Deliver” was canceled and the baseball game in the stadium has been postponed.

District officials said that school will resume as normal Friday. Students and staff will have access to extra counselors.

The threat appeared to come during a 4 p.m. baseball game between Prosser High School and Pasco. Edinger said there were relatively few students in the school at the time.

About 4:50 p.m., someone overheard a man making threats, Edinger said. The person notified a staff member, who then called police.

Police responded to the report, which said that the person had a gun.

Trevor Macduff told the Herald his daughter called him at 4:55 p.m. and asked why the school was in lockdown.

Macduff said he told his daughter he didn’t know, but he would go to the school to check on her and the situation.

“I was figuring some bad guy in a house nearby (the school) put the whole school on lockdown,” said Macduff, a teacher in Richland. “It’s five’o’clock at night, for crying out loud.”

When he arrived, he saw a Pasco officer near a telephone pole with her rifle.

However, Macduff said he didn’t see ambulances or triage centers, so he wasn’t too worried.

Then his daughter called again, telling him that everything was fine.

Police continue to search for a suspect, Edinger said, but he had no description of the person they are looking for.

Edinger said an incoming high school student and parent night was postponed.

This story was originally published March 15, 2018 at 5:36 PM with the headline "UPDATE: School cleared. Pasco High play, events canceled after gun threat nearby."