High schools across Florida receive false active shooter phone calls, following disturbing nationwide pattern

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – At least two Alachua County excessive schools had been on the middle of a college capturing hoax Tuesday. 

Law enforcement acquired phone calls that active shooters had been current at Eastside High School in Gainesville and Santa Fe High School in Alachua. Law enforcement responded to each schools and located that there was no precise risk. 

Capt. Kaley Behl of the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office mentioned the decision about Eastside High School was acquired at about 1:15 p.m. Around 20 deputies responded to the scene, in accordance with Behl.

Behl mentioned the scenario positively scared the sheriff’s workplace.

Behl mentioned comparable situations performed out at about 50 excessive schools across the nation, and the sheriff’s workplace has already begun sharing information with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is taking the lead within the nationwide investigation.

Similar hoax calls had been made across Florida Tuesday, together with in Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Central Florida and the Tampa Bay space, amongst different communities. 

This is reflective of a disturbing nationwide pattern in hoax faculty capturing calls. Ohio, Minnesota and South Carolina have reported receiving comparable calls at dozens of excessive schools over the previous month, in accordance with their native news shops. Each incident occurred on the identical day for every state, similar to Tuesday’s scenario in Florida.

The scenario strikes a uncooked nerve in Florida, which remains to be reeling from the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School capturing in Parkland.

The Parkland gunman, Nikolas Cruz, was sentenced to life in jail on Thursday.

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