{"id":157960,"date":"2026-02-17T02:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/157960\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T02:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:43:17","slug":"active-shooter-drill-held-at-jacksonville-middle-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/157960\/","title":{"rendered":"Active shooter drill held at Jacksonville middle school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A middle school in Jacksonville held an active shooter drill while students stayed home for Presidents\u2019 Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It was held at Jacksonville Commons Middle School on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">First responders practiced their response to an active school shooter in a live simulation using dummies and actors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They ran into the school while taking directions and planning their next moves. Actors and actresses were pulled out as if they\u2019d been injured, as Jacksonville Police Chief Jarad Phelps looked on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt was a coordinated effort between us, the fire department, EMS, and schools to make sure we know what our true capabilities are, what lessons we can gather from this, and how we can make it better,\u201d said Chief Phelps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Last month, the Onslow County Sheriff\u2019s Office hosted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/01\/20\/emergency-response-exercise-be-conducted-onslow-county-middle-school\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/01\/20\/emergency-response-exercise-be-conducted-onslow-county-middle-school\/\">similar drill<\/a> at a different Onslow County school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A middle school in Jacksonville held an active shooter drill while students stayed home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75741,23338,75740,75744,75745,116,75742,118,117,46126,15668,44449,75743,12037,4481,1854,12343,11513,75000,531,23345,4480],"class_list":{"0":"post-157960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-active-school-shooter","9":"tag-active-shooter","10":"tag-active-shooter-drill","11":"tag-chief-jarad-phelps","12":"tag-drill","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-jacksonville-commons-middle-school","15":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","16":"tag-jacksonville-news","17":"tag-jacksonville-police-chief","18":"tag-jacksonville-police-department","19":"tag-jarad-phelps","20":"tag-live-simulation","21":"tag-middle-school","22":"tag-nc","23":"tag-north-carolina","24":"tag-onslow-county","25":"tag-onslow-county-sheriffs-office","26":"tag-presidents-day","27":"tag-school","28":"tag-school-shooter","29":"tag-witn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}