Jacksonville, FL — A 10-year-old Mandarin Oaks Elementary student is the one who alerted the school to a possible unauthorized intruder Friday, leading to a Code Red lockdown.
New information from the incident report also shows that Mandarin Middle received a threat called in to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office that same day. The school was also put on lockdown at the same time as Mandarin Oaks, but DCPS didn’t specifically say at the time if that was because of proximity or another reason. The nature of the threat to the Middle School is not immediately clear.
The incident report says the elementary school student told his teacher about a stranger in the ESE hallway. The student described the intruder as a “very tall white male with black hair, wearing blue jeans and a black hoodie with multiple scars on his face”, according to the DCPS School Resource Officer who investigated these threats. The school initiated the lockdown when the teacher called the student’s report in to the front office.
No suspect or indication of a threat were located on either campus, so the lockdowns were lifted around 1:30PM.
