Parents said they received a message from the Plant City High School principal saying there was a robbery involving two students and that one student had a gun.<\/p>\n
PLANT CITY, Fla. \u2014 Plant City High School was on lockdown Friday as Hillsborough County deputies conducted an investigation on campus. A spokesperson for Hillsborough County Schools said the lockdown was lifted and students resumed normal classes around noon.<\/p>\n
The sheriff’s office did not give details on the nature of the investigation but confirmed that the lockdown was put in place as a precaution.<\/p>\n
No injuries have been reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Parents gathered outside the school said they were told two students were involved in a robbery and that one of them had a gun in their backpack.<\/p>\n
“The principal sent an update to our phones via text message, and she explained that there was a robbery incident involving two students, and that the student who initiated the robbery had a gun in his backpack, and that’s the latest update that I’ve had,” Yesenia Castillo, parent of a Plant City High School student, said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s frightening to have to deal with this, and our kids having to deal with this. I\u2019m relieved that [there have been] no injuries. That\u2019s a good sign,” she added.<\/p>\n
Castillo said she would like to see metal detectors at schools to prevent a scare like this in the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be nice if we would have metal detectors in the schools because it would help prevent kids from bringing weapons to school,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parents said they received a message from the Plant City High School principal saying there was a robbery…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-191565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191565","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=191565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}