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Pine Bush High School shooting reports: Crawford Police respond to ‘active incident’, campus on lockdown

Author

Olivia Bennett

Updated on January 26, 2026

Pine Shrub Secondary School is in the Town of Crawford, New York
All activities at the school are waiting as specialists investigate an ‘Functioning Occurrence’
On April 26, 2023, at 12:40 p.m., the school went into lockdown

Right now, Pine Shrub Secondary School is on lockdown as policing from different police offices investigate an ‘Functioning Occurrence’. On April 26, 2023, at 12:40 p.m., the school went into lockdown.

Pine Shrub Secondary School is in the Town of Crawford, New York. The Crawford police office in a proclamation said “Everybody is secure”. The reports of a functioning still up in the air to be unwarranted, as per New York State Police Officer Steven Nevel.

One understudy’s parent told Mid-Hudson News that kids are frightened as the police are looking through the school ‘room by room’.

“There is no danger to the local area,” Nevel said. “Guardians needn’t bother with to be concerned. Each of the children are being delivered and are protected.” He additionally added, “The school went into lockdown, and we observed guideline working methodology. Kids were secured in rooms while a methodical hunt was finished to ensure there was no legitimacy to this danger, and at the present time it ends up being unwarranted.”

SCHOOL HOAX: State Police say a report of an active shooter at Pine Bush High School Wednesday was determined to be a hoax. Authorities remain on the scene and concerned parents are asked to go to the Pine Bush fire house. Stay with News 12 for updates.

— Blaise Gomez (@BlaiseGomez12) April 26, 2023

As indicated by Nevel, the school was closed down for something like three hours before understudies and staff were bit by bit let go of the grounds at three o’clock, or about an hour over the planned excusing time. No staff individuals or understudies were harmed in the occurrence.

According to Nevel, the Crawford Police Office got a call right off the bat Wednesday revealing a shooter at the secondary school. Nonetheless, officials later found the guest was making up the circumstance. The police are not at present uncovering data about the guest.

Guardians, gatekeepers, and transports kept running to get kids out of the school on Wednesday. “Clearly concerned guardians need to accompany their children, and they need to ensure their children are protected and to embrace them,” Nevel said. “In any event, when these shooter things are unwarranted, the underlying apprehension about any parent is simply prompt frenzy.”