A potential active shooter forces the confinement of Collège Lionel-Groulx, in Sainte-Thérèse.
The CEGEP is currently confined at the request of the police, the establishment confirmed to The Press.
A potential active shooter alert was sent to students and teachers shortly after 2 p.m. “All persons present at the College must confine themselves inside their premises until further notice”, indicates the alert.
A first message had been made on the intercom ordering students and staff members to confine themselves or evacuate the building if there were exits nearby.
Sandra, a mother, received a message from her daughter around 1:50 p.m. “She said, ‘Mom, there is a white code, we are confined and it is not a practice'”. About twenty students are hidden in the classroom.
A Code White is triggered when an individual demonstrates aggressive, threatening or violent behavior that could pose risks to their own safety or that of others.
Two police cars are in front of the college.
More details to come.