A school police officer in Jacksonville shot an ax-wielding man who tried and failed to enter an elementary school after police caught up with him, and he refused to drop his weapon.
Duval County Superintendent Dr. Diana Greene advised News 4 Jax that the incident occurred round 2:48 p.m. on Friday, and Ruth N. Upson Elementary School went into lockdown when the man approached the school. A school security assistant initially turned the man again and adopted him a brief distance however didn’t depart the campus so as to be certain that the school remained safe, Burton advised reporters.
“Police officers from the Duval County School Police Department were on the way. As the subject then left the school, he made his way towards a church where he was then encountered by the police officers,” DCPS Police Chief Greg Burton mentioned.
“As the subject came towards one of the police officers, the officers gave him verbal warnings to drop the ax, kept giving him verbal warnings to drop the ax,” Burton continued.
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Ruth N. Upson Elementary School in Duval County, Florida, the place an ax-wielding man tried to achieve entry. School police shot the man not less than as soon as in the course of the confrontation.
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The man didn’t comply and as a substitute threatened the officer, which prompted the officer to shoot “at least one time.” The man was in crucial situation following the confrontation.
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Families acquired two notifications relating to the incident because it occurred: The first message knowledgeable households that the school initiated its lockdown procedures due to a “suspicious person allegedly carrying an axe outside of the school,” however that each one college students and employees had been protected. The second message knowledgeable dad and mom that the school had “lifted the code red for dismissal.”
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Mayor Lenny Curry tweeted out an replace to say he had been involved with Greene and that he was “grateful everyone at the school is safe and headed home with their families.”