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I always thought, ‘What would I do? Below is a screenshot of the post with the name & photo blacked out because the student is a minor.Also on Friday evening the Midlothian Police Department posted this statement to NextDoor:We highlighted part of the sentence, as this was a topic of discussion on social media Friday night. You can’t do anything, you just kind of feel really helpless,” Jeremy added.Freshman Micah Carruthers was in class when his teacher told him they were going on lockdown.“I was worried someone was in the building and we would have to hide or something.
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The campus was immediately placed on lockdown as a precaution.Authorities went classroom to classroom, where they searched each room and students' bags. Parents were receiving updates from their children or family member that they were confined to their classrooms without lunch or bathroom breaks.With concerned parents anxiously wanting to get their children from school, the lockdown continued until a little after 2:30 pm.By then parents still had more questions than answers, and some students were posting about their experiences on social media outlets. The following four forms must be complete and turned in.
Parents began posting questions, texting their children, and misinformation was unintentionally spread.Recognizing parents were concerned and even panicking as time drug on with little information, MISD continued posting updates.News of a SWAT team entering the school wasn’t calming parents fears as parents and the community waited for more updates. While some took comfort in hearing about the scope of the response, others became more unnerved by hearing multiple agencies including Homeland Security were on campus.Students at Midlothian High School had been on lock down at approximately three hours at this point. It’s unfortunate we have to teach our kids things like that,” parent Mark Baker said.“People with big guns came in and searched all their bags and they were being forced to crouch down in corners and not talk to anybody,” parent Erin Ingram said.Parents were eventually reunited with their kids as school dismissed just before 3 p.m.“It’s terrible. Video from SKY 4 showed officers with shields and weapons jogging into the school.Just after 2:30 p.m., the school district announced the lockdown had been lifted after authorities gave the all-clear.Police said two students reported that they saw a girl in a bathroom waving a gun, but it turns out that there was never a threat or a gun.Police said they didn't find any weapons during their search of the school, and no arrests have been made as of 3 p.m.Students said they went hours without a bathroom break or anything to eat as they were locked inside their classrooms. As a precaution, there was an increased police presence both games.The Grand Prairie Police Department said it also assisted the Midlothian Police Department in their investigation and going room to room.State troopers in front of the school have been redirecting traffic away from the area.
After a lot of time had passed, I started calming down,” he recalled.“At first, people were nervous and scared because they had all these cops rush in their rooms,” student Noah Rodriguez said.Many parents were communicating with their kids by text.“She told me via text, ‘I already picked the chair I’ll throw out the window if they start trying to breach the door.’ She knows these things. For many parents and local residents the news arrived via a post on Facebook:As many saw this notification, they didn’t have any other information as to the cause of the lockdown, etc.