Great work done by Bolingbrook PD and VVSD working together

how did he get into the school if he is a former student, the doors are locked and you are suppose to be cleared by a security guard before getting in

OMG!! he was going to shoot someone or sell the gun to someone!! I know justice won't lock him up...they never do. Run this thug out of town!!! Good going BHS Security and the B-Police for catching him....camera's are everything!!!!

No end in sight to this stuff!

Good question bandit....

Exactly! How did he get into the school in the first place ? The school is not that secure , if an former student got in with a HANDGUN ! My child is obviously not safe at all ! If that boy really wanted to shoot up the school, he probably could have ! This situation is not reassuring at all !

uhm, so... when I enter the school, I need to show my DL and explain why I'm there to security. this guy walks in? no questions asked? my daughter has been in the hallways at 2:15 waiting for cheer practice to start, heading to the vending machines and has been stopped by security and told that she will be given a ticket for trespassing if she's caught again. lets definitely focus on rogue cheerleaders getting snacks.... yet this guy enters the bldg. with a gun?

My special ed student took out her phone at BHS and got in trouble. But,a kid can walk in with a gun. How safe is this school??!!!

If this incident occurred at 2:11 PM, isn't that after dismissal? I do believe that anyone could walk into the building at that time. You have around 4,000 students milling around and trying to get to buses, how do we not understand that this isn't really a security issue its a size issue. Also if he didn't come through a main door (i.e. main points of exit) then he had to be let in by a student. No educator is going to open an outside door for student they will tell them to go to the main entrance. If safety is your main issue you should look at those factors and stop pointing fingers at people who work very hard, spend a lot of extra time, and really want all of the children at Bolingbrook to be successful. Just like any other school Bolingbrook will have teachers that are there for the money and job security, but the teachers I have encountered from my visits here with my own children, seem to care and have positive expectations for all students that they work with.

At 2 o clock when there's hundreds of kids fleeing out of 20+ exits to go home it's not that hard for someone to just go in .

Maybe he kept his old student ID and entered with other students? Still not safe there though

Kids let other kids in the side/back doors all the time. Remember the movie Stand By Me? When they tried to chain the doors, but it was illegal? Unless they can post a security guard at all of the 20+ doors, there will always be a student that will let someone in!

There was early dismissal that day at 1:20. So anyone could've let him in that was still at the school that day. I wouldn't be pointing fingers at anyone considering there's more then 20 doors I believe in that school. Should this kind of stuff be happening? No....but Iit's really hard to keep this kind of violence under control esespecially when you don't have the security force that's needed for such a large school of over 4000 students.
So instead of complaining, find a solution to the problem people!!!

I am sick of everyone laying blame everywhere EXCEPT FOR THE PERSON WITH THE GUN! like pointed out it was about dismissal time. I highly doubt any teacher or security person would have just let someone in. Yes there is ALWAYS something more that could've been done. The plus side is nobody was hurt and they caught who was Responsible!

He knew when to go in. However, that does not make a parent, or student, feel any safer. It's b.s. that all necessary precautions have been taken after, Columbine, 9/11, Newtown, and so on. Nothing will be implemented until something bad happens. How sad. The only time this piece of work decides to go to school is when he's not a student anymore. You know damned well he didn't go when he was a student. To be fair I don't care your race, but if you don't mind, get the F out of my town. I'm tired of you idiots setting up camp here.

As a student at BHS it is easy to get into the school and as kids are leaving ppl are able come in the school through any door

This happened on Tuesday, not Wednesday the early release day. @ Tom I don't think the police and vvsd worked well at all. This happened Tuesday at 2:11 and police and school officials knew there was a kid with a gun on the loose and they didn't think to inform the community or lockdown the surrounding elementary schools!! Thank god nothing happened is all I can say!

I was present in the hallway where he was found. Several security guards as well as a police officer were chasing him down the hallway. This was well after school was out and as soon as they realized he was in the building people reacted and every one was safe. I for one feel safer knowing the security staff and police on campus reacted as quickly as they did.

Jesus people can you not read?

The article says, "Police said Hughes entered Bolingbrook High School Tuesday afternoon at 2:11 p.m.

"The high school day ends at 2 p.m.," said Larry Randa, director of community relations for Valley View. "Between that time and when buses depart at roughly 2:10 p.m., up to 3,500 students are leaving the building through several different exits.""

I am a former BHS student myself at this campus and it's really easy to get into the building around that time. Even though most of the doors are locked someone could easily let you back in because people exit through many of the doors. It's NOT that hard for someone to get in, and I know this as a student who was in Tech/Crew for the plays and often times I would go to 7-11 after school and people who were hanging around by the doors near the A-Wing would just let me back in. It's not right, and it's not safe which is why security comes around and tells students to get the hell out of the building, but this stuff DOES happen quite easily, unfortunately.

GREAT JOB BPD and BHS security!!!
hey could the high school stagger the times the students are let out of school to make less people mass exiting at one time... what about letting several students out of so many doors at a time?? maybe just bus students first from the main doors??? maybe doing the release from 1:50 to 2:30
i am not sure of the exact way but could be a start....there would not be a mass of students at one time!! also makes huge problems at the 107th st intersection and 7-11...... YOU CANT MAKE ANYTHING WORK UNLESS YOU TRY :)

Seriously folks...if you would stop posting knee-jerk reactions and READ first! Does it say the gun was loaded? Have you ever been there at release time? It's pretty crazy with all those teens streaming out the doors. How do you know the other schools weren't alerted? Take a step back and BREATHE and, if you can do a better job, feel free to apply! I'm sure they'd love to have so many security experts working them. Until then, let's give BPD and VVSD security a round of applause for reacting so quickly and, after he was dumb enough to run from them, bringing him in less than 24 hours later.

I'm happy with the way it was handled at BHS......I Do wonder if maybe the surrounding schools still in session should have been on lockdown!!!

Just a thought...why not a longer school day? Getting out at 2p.m. Seems to me the school day is too short and extending it until 3 or 3:30 p.m. would allow for more educating.

Shut the fuck up

Jimmy j you probably think 16 yr olds shouldn't get their license also. Right ? The only reason they get out that early is because they start ridiculously early also. To everyone else How about actually reading THEN commenting??? The guy didn't point the gun at security they said they saw him pull the gun while finding him on the video for the school. They did not even know he was armed till later that day. So as you can read from the article there would be no reason for them to lockdown the other schools. They simply had an intruder. NOT AN ARMED GUNMEN... At least not that they were aware of yet anyway... Great job by security and BPD!! Thank god he wasn't stupid enough to do anything like pull the weapon out while being chased because we would be reading something totally different right now....

This guy looks MORE like the sketch they are trying to pin on Kareem Green!! Have the Bolingbrook police looked into this? His actions appear alot more related!