Madrona Elementary School: on alert?
Something happened after DéChé Morrison's funeral that apparently worried administrators up at Madrona Elementary...though they won't say exactly what. Jonah Spangenthal-Lee over at SLOG reports this morning:
According to Seattle Schools spokesman David Tucker, district security and Madrona administrators received information which led to the alert. “There were some heightened concerns,” Tucker says, “and we wanted to increase our security as a precautionary measure. Tucker would not comment on the nature of the information the school received.Morrison was of high school age, and had most recently attended Cleveland High School (which he had dropped out of in November). This raises some questions:
Today, all but one of the school’s entrances were secured and staff were told to be on alert for visitors. [Note: Emphasis added by the Seattle Crime Blogger - Ed.]
- Did Morrison attend Madrona? If so, was this some sort of retaliatory threat? (And against whom?)
- If not, why would a K-8 school be on alert following the funeral of a 14-year-old kid whose last educational experiences took place halfway across the city?
- And finally, why would school officials be so tight-lipped about the whole thing, when the safety of their students is potentially threatened?
