Long Beach police rushed to Stephens Middle School in West Long Beach Wednesday afternoon after a child called 911 to say a student had a gun on the playground — a report that turned out to be false.
Police treated the threat seriously, rushing to the school and calling in a helicopter to help them scour the schoolyard where many students were outside at around 1:30 p.m. Officers hurried to find the student the caller falsely reported was involved and the teacher the student was supposedly with.
A Long Beach Police Department spokesperson said officers quickly determined the call was “non-credible,” and they began looking for the person who called 911…