Lake County SRO will receive a national award for its response to the shooting in an elementary school parking lot

LAKE COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) – A student resource officer will receive a national award for his response to a shot fired Thursday in the parking lot of Riverview Elementary School.

The One in Five Foundation for Children, formerly the Uvalde Foundation for Kids, is a national nonprofit organization established in response to the May 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

The unnamed officer will receive a National Award for Heroism from the organization.

“This brave officer is a direct result of his commitment and compassion to law enforcement on our nation’s campuses,” said Daniel Chapin, founder of the foundation.
“The officer used his training to observe for potential threats to students and acted quickly and methodically to ensure students’ safety. We honor this officer and the department he serves. Heroes still wear badges.”

Students and staff at Riverview Elementary were on lockdown for about an hour Thursday after shots were fired in the school’s parking lot.

Lake County sheriff’s deputies were called to the school around 9:10 a.m. Thursday after the school’s resource officer approached the vehicles involved in the shooting.

Officials say the SRO ordered the man in possession of the firearm to exit the vehicle and drop the weapon before a struggle occurred with the suspect.

Lake County Sheriff Frank Leonbruno confirmed that Alexander Sinclair had been arrested.

The Lake County Sheriff's Office has named a suspect in connection with shots fired outside Riverview... — The Lake County Sheriff’s Office has named a suspect in connection with the shooting outside Riverview Elementary School as Cleveland Police Officer Alexander Sinclair(Source: Lake County Sheriff’s Office)

Cleveland police confirmed the arrested suspect is an off-duty police officer.

A Facebook post from Riverside Local Schools confirms that the domestic dispute began off school property and moved to the Riverview Elementary School parking lot.

The sheriff’s office confirmed that a single bullet was fired into the windshield of the second vehicle.

Riverview Elementary School(Bingel, Julia | (Source: WOIO))

School officials say that during the dispute, shots were fired near vehicles that had entered the parking lot toward Madison Avenue.

The post emphasized that the shot was not fired at the school.

There were no injuries to students or staff, but Painesville Township firefighters said “several ambulance transports” responded to the scene with non-life-threatening injuries.

“Our school safety officer, who is a deputy with the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, other sheriff’s deputies, and area police and fire departments immediately responded to the scene, and the person of interest was immediately taken into custody by our school safety officer,” the system reports school. published on Facebook.

The School Resource Officer’s graduation ceremony will be announced at a later date.