Westside High locked down Friday morning after suspicious person reported

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Westside High School was placed connected lockdown Friday greeting aft a study of a “potentially unsafe concern with an alleged firearm connected campus,” a Duval County School District spokesperson said.

The spokesperson told News4JAX an anonymous extremity was received that idiosyncratic dressed successful achromatic with a weapon was nether the bleachers astatine the shot field.

When constabulary arrived to investigate, they did not find anyone.

The schoolhouse was connected Code Red lockdown initially but volition stay connected Code Yellow for the remainder of the day.

The territory said families were being notified, and parents tin cheque their children retired aboriginal if they want.

“It’s scary. I inactive person the shakes. I inactive consciousness nauseous,” said Iericha James, the parent of a Westside High sophomore. “Even conscionable seeing him, I’m inactive scared, trying to clasp it together. My ma is implicit determination crying. It’s an atrocious feeling.”