‘It’s beyond unsettling, it’s terrifying’: At local high schools, the fear of gun violence looms

ON THE MORNING of Oct. 12, the SAT and PSAT exams began as usual at Woodside High School. Students sat hunched over their test booklets, filling in answer bubbles in hushed classrooms. All was quiet across the high school’s sprawling 30-acre campus.

Then the police cars arrived. The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office had received word that there was an active shooter on Woodside’s campus.