WESTON – One more working day, yet another lockdown at Cypress Bay High Faculty.
Broward County Sheriff’s deputies surrounded the campus for hours Thursday early morning in reaction to the 2nd menace the college gained this 7 days.
On Tuesday, Cypress Bay was put on lockdown just after mothers and fathers and college students stated a shell casing was uncovered inside the faculty.
Thursday, CBS 4 was instructed another shell casing was discovered.
“Every person in the team chat was expressing oh, we’re on lockdown all over again, for the exact same factor as last time? They identified the shotgun shells in the locker space,” said Paulina Gonzalez, a senior at Cypress Bay.
Concerned mothers and fathers rushed to the scene right after hearing what took place.
“The gun shells, anybody would be intimidated by that,” reported Antonio Ramos.
Other individuals say not even their young ones were being told what was going on.
“My son has been texting me, they have no notion,” said Diana Castrillon.
This is the 3rd lockdown in much less than two months. The first, occurred on February 13 following the university received a threatening cellular phone connect with.
Dad and mom and college students say their largest concern is the absence of transparency.
“Communications are necessary in any sort of romantic relationship of trust and this is likely the most significant marriage of believe in when you drop your youngster off at an establishment to be taken treatment of and taught and educated. And I consider as a parent if we can not just get simple info, it creates a lot far more confusion and chaos,” claimed Castrillon.
Now, leaders for Broward General public Universities are hoping to fortify that line of interaction heading forward.
“That is some thing that I am going to be addressing with the superintendent to make certain moving ahead, that there is a way the place it can be not interfering with the investigation that is going on, but there’s a place human being that would be equipped to field people phone calls and make guaranteed that the mothers and fathers know to the extent of what we can let them of what’s taking place,” said Debra Hixon, Vice Chair of Broward County General public Educational institutions.
We achieved out to the college district and Broward County Sheriff’s Business, inquiring precisely how that line of interaction will be cleared likely forward. We did not hear from the district, but BSO pointed us to this statement from Weston’s city manager:
No 1 was hurt in the course of the lockdown and the investigation is ongoing.
