A woman with a knife jumped a fence at East Ridge Elementary School on Thursday, according to a social media post.
School officials steered the woman away from nearby children and hurried them into the school, it was stated.
The school went into full lockdown.
There was also a lockdown at East Hamilton Middle/High.
Officials said it was related to alleged threats on social media.
The post on the situation at East Ridge Elementary says:
We had a pretty good scare at school today.
We had just gone out to the playground for our annual water day when an intruder jumped over our fence extremely messed up on something, screaming that someone was trying to kill her.
She had a knife. My team and the principals worked together to steer her away from the children and then picked up our kids and rushed inside. We went on full lockdown and had our kiddos locked in the bathroom with an employee. The intruder proceeded to bang on our outside door still screaming. The police got there and took her into custody.
Tonight I’m so thankful that things didn’t turn ugly, it could have happened so quickly. I’m thankful for safe kiddos and that our team was able to think and act quickly.
Thankfully our kids were so excited about water day that they didn’t realize what all happened. They thought it was so cool that they hung out in the bathroom together, singing loudly (It helped that I sent in a whole lollipop tree with them so they had endless amounts of dum dums ).
I’m thankful that things didn’t turn ugly. It could have so quickly. I’m thankful for safe kiddos and that our team was able to think and act quickly.
Please pray for the families of my students. I can’t imagine how scared they were for their children. I’m sure they are snuggling them extra close tonight.