Several Wicomico County Public Schools and the Central Office were locked down for about 30 minutes Friday, Oct. 1, in response to a law enforcement issue in the community. Schools were placed on code red and locked down around 10:45 a.m. after a man on foot reportedly carrying a firearm was seen crossing the grounds of the Central Office and Wicomico High School. Law enforcement detained an individual, and further details will come from law enforcement. At 11:13 a.m., with a suspect in custody, the precautionary lockdown was lifted at the Central Office and at James M. Bennett High, Glen Avenue Elementary and Wicomico Middle. Wicomico High remained in lockdown for another hour while law enforcement conducted a grounds search.
Am I correct in assuming that this was not a student? Yet they were able to enter WiHi property with a handgun??? I thought the outside doors at schools were supposed to be locked?
ReplyDeleteIn these days of no tolerance how is it that a elementary student with toy gun gets suspended, but a person with a actual gun has access to students and staff!
10:25, no, it wasn't a student. My guess is, they ran in the school's main front entry doors. All the side doors stay locked. It is scary. Maybe they need to go to buzzer systems for entry. What a world we live in now. Just glad they caught these druggie scum!
ReplyDeleteI don't know how the school is set up now, but when I attended in the 90's, doors to the buildings had to remain unlocked because it was a "campus". Students had to move from building to building throughout the day, so the doors had to remain unlocked.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why Parkside wasn't included in the lockdown. They are situated between Glen Ave. and Bennett High. Wouldn't they be at risk as well?
I didn't see where Parkside was on lockdown...And Bennett was?? Parkside is a little closer to WiHi than Bennett is...I guess the students at the other schools were more important than those that attend Parkside..
ReplyDeleteWiHi needed to be on lock down because the suspect ran through the school, then onto Glen Garden apartments. Parkside, Glen Ave., Prince Street, Bennett High, and Bennett Middle (which did not go on lock down) were never at any risk, especially as the suspect was caught in Glen Gardens. Get a grip people.
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