Florida School Shut Down After Student Found With Gun: Reports

A high school in Florida was placed under lockdown after a student was found with a gun on campus on September 11, according to the school district.
Local news outlet FOX35 reported that the Lake Brantley High School in Altamonte Springs, Florida, was put under a “code yellow” lockdown.
Officials from Seminole County Public Schools told the outlet they had received a tip that a student has a gun on campus. A search resulted in finding an unloaded gun, they said, and a student was taken into custody.
Newsweek has reached out to Lake Brantley High School and Seminole County Public Schools for comment via email.
FOX35 spoke to the unnamed students who gave the initial tip. They said, “The kid walked in the stall, left the stall door open, and he pulled a gun out from his waistband and put it in his backpack. And then proceeded to tell us ‘don’t mess with me.'”
The students said they immediately notified authorities about the student, and the school was locked down with police and a K9 unit.
According to the police, the gun they seized was reported stolen from Orange County. They said they do not yet know how a student could have gotten ahold of the gun. They also have not released information on the student who was taken into custody, including name and age.
When the lockdown was over, parents were seen rushing over to the building to collect their kids, who were reportedly crying and running to hug their parents.
One parent spoke to Fox35 saying: “It’s heartbreaking that the kids have to go through this.”
Another student, Sophia Linero, told Fox35: “I was scared for my people, my friends that were inside of their classrooms, This just needs to end at some point. I urge you to make a call of action.”
David Riedman, founder of the K-12 School Shooter Database, told Newsweek that based on his own monitoring of news outlets, “Students are arrested with guns at schools every single day. 56 percent of these guns are found after a tip from a classmate to school officials or police.”
According to a 2023 analysis by The Washington Post, there were over six guns per day on average seized in K-12 schools in the previous school year
According to data from the K-12 School Shooter Database, there have been 12 school shooting incidents in Florida this year. This includes any incident where a gun is brandished or fired, or a bullet hits school property for any reason.
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