FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - Police arrested a student who is accused of bringing a gun to Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale.
Fort Lauderdale Police arrived at the school, located at 2501 NW 11th St., Friday morning.
According to police, they received reports of two juveniles who were found trespassing at around 10 a.m. The school was placed on lockdown as officers searched the school.
The subjects were found and were detained. School officials said they came to school with a Dillard student.
Later that morning, at around 11:20 a.m., police were notified that a student potentially had a gun. With the school still on lockdown, officers found the student, but they were not in possession of a gun.
7Skyforce hovered above the campus as concerned parents walked up and police cruisers filled the front driveway.
“They called a code red,” said student Isaiah Esearmut. “During a code red, basically what was said inside the gym, ‘There were kids holding a gun.’ It does concern me. The security is good over here, it’s just that, you know, kids get with their ID’s a lot.”
Cellphone video showed students gathered at the school’s gym as police searched the school.
“I was just in class, cool, secure,” said another student. “It started, like at what, sixth period, they put us on secure, I don’t really know. Seventh period was when it was actually happening.”
The student, who is 17 years old, was arrested and will be charged.
“Me being a witness, well, they separated all the kids that go to the school on one side of the gym and then the kids that had the gun, they put them on one side and put them in cuffs and took them out of the gym,” said Esearmut.
After searching the school, officers found a firearm in the school’s gymnasium.
Meanwhile, students documented the drama on social media.
“I just saw it on Instagram, like a little gun. What’s the point, bringing a gun to school?” said a student.
A pep rally that was scheduled to be held ahead of Dillard’s game against Blanche Ely High was cancelled.
Their identity or the charges they face have not been disclosed.
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