Gun found near Box Elder school

Box Elder Public Schools were closed today after a gun or guns were found in the area of the school.

Hill County Sheriff Don Brostrom said the gun was found "somewhere in the area of the school."

Rocky Boy Police officers, who patrol Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, are looking into the matter, he said.

Box Elder junior high school and high school principal Jeremy MacDonald said the gun was not found in the school and all he knew was that it was found within tribal jurisdiction.

The school is located just outside the boundaries of the reservation.

He said a "couple kids" were still on their way home, but everyone else had been evacuated safely, and no one had been hurt. MacDonald said that Rocky Boy police were looking into the matter.

No one from Rocky Boy Police would answer questions about the incident.