Warren Co. Career Center will be closed Friday in aftermath of suicide

As a result of the closure, Springboro High School students who attend WCCC part-time and ride buses in the morning will be picked up as normal. However, they will be dropped off at home instead of at WCCC during the afternoon, according to a note the high school sent to parents. In addition, students who ride buses and attend SHS in the afternoon will be picked up at home.

The high school will contact the WCCC part-time students by phone to notify them of their pickup time, the note said, adding that they will be dropped off after school according to the normal schedule.

Contact the high school if you have questions at 937-748-3950.

Warren County Coroner’s investigator Doyle Burke said tonight the fatality was identified as 20-year-old Samuel Johnson of South Lebanon. His preliminary cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. An autopsy will be performed Friday.

Need help: A crisis hotline number is always open at 877-695-NEED(6333), and a statewide crises text line is available by texting 4hope to 741741, according to Mental Health Recovery Services of Warren & Clinton Counties.

UPDATE @ 3:46 p.m.:

A school resource officer at Warren County Career Center discovered a student that apparently committed suicide in the school’s parking lot, according to Lt. John Faine with the Warren County Sheriff’s Office.

“Immediately he was outside in the parking lot and found a student who had apparently a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” Faine said. “We don’t have reason to believe that anyone else was or is in danger.”

The Warren County Coroner’s Office said a note was found in the 20-year-old male victim’s car, which was located in the rear parking lot of the building

Peg Allen, spokesperson for the school, said the school was notified of the incident and took action immediately.

“We received a report of an incident in the parking lot,” Allen said. “We immediately called for a lockdown of the building.”

Faine said someone at the school hit the school emergency button to alert emergency personnel.

“It prompts a countywide law enforcement and EMS personnel response,” Faine said.

Allen said the students at the school practice lock down procedures regularly.

“We do lockdown drills regularly, several times a year,” Allen said.

UPDATE@3:05 p.m.:

A note was found in the victim’s car, which was parked in the rear parking lot of the building, police said.

The coroner is expected to perform an autopsy. The victim is described as a 20-year-old white male.

UPDATE @ 2:36 p.m.:

The Warren County Sheriff’s Office has told our CBS affiliate in Cincinnati that a student died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

UPDATE @ 2:13 p.m.:

One person was killed after shots were reportedly fired in the parking lot of the Warren County Career Center, 3525 Ohio 48, around 1:50 p.m., the Warren County Coroner’s Office said.

Warren County dispatchers said they were initially alerted to the incident following an emergency alert from the school.

The school entrances and exits are currently being blocked by police.

About seven empty buses are idling at the back of the school, however no kids are on them.

INITIAL REPORT:

The Warren County Career Center is on lock down following a report of a possible shooting  this afternoon, according to school officials.

Buses are being diverted in the area of the career center, according to reports.

Police and firefighters are responding on an initial report of shots fired around 1:50 p.m., according to dispatch reports.

We’re hearing reports of a shooting in the parking lot of the school.