14 DAY TRIAL // Lodi High School in New Jersey was placed on lockdown yesterday over the threat of an active shooter.
Someone called the school and warned that a person with a gun was on the premises on Tuesday morning.
The phone call came in at around 9 a.m. and an announcement was made over the loudspeaker at 10:30 a.m.
Students were asked to stay inside and the doors were locked, with parents waiting for their kids outside.
The news also prompted a closedown of the institutions in the Hasbrouck Heights School District, WABC reports.
Police Captain John Scimeca detailed that an anonymous caller warned about a student bringing a gun and hiding in a restroom with it.
The Lodi High School threat came one day after the shooting at Garden State Plaza mall in Paramus, New Jersey.
North Jersey writes that the threat has been lifted and the children are safe. Police covered the perimeter in about an hour.
"At no time were the kids in any type of danger.
"Based on the threat and based on the incident that happened last night (Monday), we decided to do a classroom by classroom search," Scimeca says.
Students had to wait for police to clear every single classroom before leaving, and they were searched and patted.
"We were in gym class, and on the loudspeaker, all you hear is lockdown, lockdown. So we just got into lockdown mode. We would hide inside the showers and lockdown all the buildings, and we were just sitting there.
"And then the cops came to the door and said, 'We're the police. Are you guys safe?'...They called lockdown off after they cleared the building. They just wanted to make sure everything was safe. We got patted down by police and got released one by one," one student remembers.