OGDEN, Utah – In an unusual move, a school had all students patted down for weapons after the suspect they were looking for gave them “ambiguous comments.”

Rumors surfaced that a student had brought a weapon to Fremont High School to “shoot a former girlfriend and open fire on the rest of the school,” according to the Salt Lake Tribune.

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“He thought there was somebody talking about him,” Weber County Sheriff’s Lt. Lane Findlay says. “So he was going to bring the gun to school.”

He allegedly stole the gun – 9mm semiautomatic – from a family member.

“A female student spotted the gun shortly after noon Monday and alerted a school resource officer, who ‘detained the suspect without incident,'” the paper reports.

One student, who was granted anonymity, tells the Libertas Institute:

During my third period class the principal came over the intercom and announced that all teachers were to lock the doors and no one was permitted in the hall. I just thought maybe it was a random locker search with drug dogs because they have done that occasionally.

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Then we looked out the window of our classroom and saw dozens of police cars and realized that this was not a drill. We continued to wait in class for what seemed like three hours after the end of our teacher’s lecture that day. Students were taking pictures out the window and calling family and friends. The principal then came over the intercom and announced that the school was being evacuated and that they would evacuate our classrooms one-by-one. We waited for another 45 minutes until a police officer opened our door and told us to all line up and leave everything, including backpacks, behind. They let us keep our wallets, cell phones, and car keys. They instructed us to go down the hall and split up into girls on one side of the hall and boys on the other. They had us put our arms above our heads and spread our legs. I placed my keys and cell phone on the ground.

A female officer came by and patted me down. She thoroughly searched me over my clothing including under and around my breasts, my buttocks, and between my legs. When we were done with the pat-downs we were led outside to the football field.

The student says no administrators or teachers were present during the line up or searches.

She also says officers did not seek consent to frisk students.

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“…They were pretty intimidating and just ordered us saying we have to do this and that, etc. They just told us we were all getting searched. They all had big guns and the feeling was very serious.”

According to the Libertas Institute, students were not present when their belongings were searched.

The Tribune reports this all occurred because the suspect – whom they already had in custody – gave investigators “ambiguous comments,” saying he “didn’t know” if other students were involved.

According to the paper, several agencies responded to the school, including the Weber County Sheriff’s office, officers from Pleasant View, Harrisville, the U.S. Forest Service, the Utah Highway Patrol, Ogden and the Ogden Metro SWAT team.

The student says this incident didn’t follow the procedure for which they were trained.

“We’ve had drills before for shooter scenarios where we are supposed to lock the door, turn off the lights, and then hide and yet during this incident we didn’t do that.”

She adds, “The cops were super mean, strict, and intimidating. I felt like we were being treated like criminals as if we were already guilty of something when we had just been sitting in class for three hours.”