{"id":805748,"date":"2026-07-17T08:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/805748\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T08:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:50:11","slug":"man-arrested-after-footscray-high-school-sent-into-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/805748\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after Footscray High School sent into lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleanor Campbell<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-datetime\" class=\"sc-5cbbddda-5 hxoHkT\">Updated July 17, 2026 \u2014 5:29pm,first published 4:16pm<\/p>\n<p>Save<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-d1b14060-4 JmUoF\">You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n<p>Remove items from your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/goodfood\/saved\" class=\"sc-3f16ee48-12 sc-d1b14060-2 jyLmZI iQLtAb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n<p>AAA<\/p>\n<p>A man has been arrested by police after he was reportedly seen with a weapon near Footscray High School\u2019s Barkly campus, sending the school into a lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Police tasered and arrested the 44-year-old man inside a nearby abandoned building about 3.35pm after an hour-long stand-off on Barkly Street.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police and emergency service respond to the incident at Footscray on Friday afternoon.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/c96cb6a700562862db68ad3b2908c775140458bb.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Police and emergency service respond to the incident at Footscray on Friday afternoon.Nine News<\/p>\n<p>A Victoria Police spokesperson said officers located edged weapons and imitation firearms at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was taken to hospital for assessment under police guard,\u201d a statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Parents were advised the junior school had been placed into lockdown in an email sent by school principal Jillian English on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis afternoon we were informed by the Victorian Police of an incident occurring in a home in the vicinity of the Barkly campus of the school,\u201d the email, seen by The Age, said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police advised to place the school into lockdown as a precaution. All students and staff are safe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVictoria Police have advised the incident is ongoing for now and as a result students cannot leave at the end of the school day at this stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An Education Department spokesperson confirmed all students and staff are safe.<\/p>\n<p>Barkly Street has reopened after it was blocked off in both directions between French Street and Victoria Street.<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know when major news happens. <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/newsletter-signup?newsletter=breaking-news&amp;utm_source=EditorialArticle&amp;utm_medium=ArticleText&amp;utm_campaign=Newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for breaking news alerts<\/a> on email or turn on notifications in the app.<\/p>\n<p>Save<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-d1b14060-4 JmUoF\">You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n<p>Remove items from your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/goodfood\/saved\" class=\"sc-3f16ee48-12 sc-d1b14060-2 jyLmZI iQLtAb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n<p>From our partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eleanor Campbell Updated July 17, 2026 \u2014 5:29pm,first published 4:16pm Save You have reached your maximum number of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-805748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}