PARKLAND, Fla. (WFLA) — Marjory Stoneman Douglas Excessive Faculty was positioned on lockdown Monday after police stated a girl known as to report details about a doable menace made on social media.
Nonetheless, investigators stated they later discovered that no threatening posts had been ever made towards the college, and that the caller, Guesmirde Lamarre, 21, appeared to have made it up.
Lamarre was arrested Monday on costs of utilizing 911 to report false info and interfering with faculty administration capabilities, Broward jail data confirmed.
In keeping with NBC 6 South Florida, Lamarre known as Coral Springs police earlier that morning to report {that a} man had threatened to “shoot up” the college on Snapchat. However when investigators discovered the person, he stated he had identified Lamarre since highschool and by no means made any posts of that nature.
The college was positioned on safe standing as a precaution whereas Broward County deputies investigated. Officers later gave the all clear, and faculty operations returned to regular.
“It’s important to take each menace severely,” faculty board member Debbie Hixon, whose husband was killed in a 2018 mass capturing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, informed NBC 6. “I dwell in a world the place they didn’t take the menace severely, and I dwell with out my husband each day.”
Final month marked seven years since a gunman opened hearth at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Excessive Faculty, killing 17 folks and injuring 18 others. It was one of many deadliest mass shootings at a highschool in U.S. historical past.
Lamarre was booked into jail and later appeared earlier than a Broward choose for a bond listening to. At one level, she interrupted the choose to state that she was sorry and that she had been “identified with psychosis,” NBC 6 reported.
She was granted a $650 bond and informed to not use social media. The choose additionally ordered that she endure a psychological well being analysis.
