A Florida high school was forced into lockdown and swarmed by hundreds of armored officers Tuesday after an 11-year-old student called in an active shooter threat — all because he wanted the day off.
Little Taryn Louis-Jean allegedly called 911 around 9:30 a.m., shortly after the school day started at Horizon Academy in Marion Oaks, located about 70 miles northwest of Orlando.
“Please, there’s a school shooter walking down the hall,” Louis-Jean sounded unconvincingly telling the dispatcher in the released call.
When pressed for basic details — including the school he claimed he was trapped in — Louis-Jean stammered and hesitated without giving up his location.
“He’s coming, he’s coming,” the boy said before hanging up.
Dispatchers rushed every available deputy to the high school, which was immediately locked down even though there were no signs of a gunman lurking through the building.
Little Taryn Louis-Jean allegedly called 911 around 9:30 a.m., shortly after the school day started at Horizon Academy in Marion Oaks, located about 70 miles northwest of Orlando. Fox 35 Orlando/YouTube
SWAT and Aviation teams, as well as several nearby state and federal law enforcement agencies arrived on the scene in anticipation of another tragic mass shooting at an educational institution.
Law enforcement cleared the scene just two hours later – finding no attackers or weapons, but baffled students and faculty whose “level of fear was palpable.”
Investigators traced the 911 call to a student’s cell phone, which Louis-Jean allegedly took to make the call.
Dispatchers rushed every available deputy to the high school, which was immediately locked down even though there were no signs of a gunman lurking through the building. Fox 35 Orlando/YouTube
“Louis-Jean told his friend he wanted to go home early, and when that same friend left his cell phone unattended while he went to the clinic, Louis-Jean used the phone to call 911 to report an active shooter,” the Marion County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. .
“This is all a joke.”
The 11-year-old was arrested and charged with making a false report of a mass shooting, using a two-way communication device to facilitate a crime, disrupting school functions and misuse of the 911 emergency system.
Law enforcement cleared the scene just two hours later – finding no attackers or weapons, but baffled students and faculty whose “level of fear was palpable.” Fox 35 Orlando/YouTube
The sentence was not too harsh for the young child, according to Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods, especially given the overwhelming response to the hoax call.
“The law requires any person who makes a false report of this type to pay damages for the cost of a law enforcement response, which, in this case, would equate to hundreds and hundreds of man hours. This young man has to mow a lot of grass to pay the bills,” Woods said in a statement.
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