Meanwhile, Jayleen’s boyfriend was in the parking lot and about to enter the school when the building went on lockdown. Her stepdaughter said she couldn’t see or hear anything at the moment but was told not to make any calls. informing her that the school was in lockdown and police officers were in the building. “That was such a relief,” Chelsey Arroyo said moments after having a brief chat with Troutman.Īrroyo said she received a text message from her stepdaughter, senior Jayleen Moquete, at 8:37 a.m. Troutman spoke with reassuring calmness and compassion, proving to be a much-needed steadying force for parents likely reeling from fear. Troutman was providing updates to parents about an active shooter report at the school that turned out to be a hoax. Ritchey Troutman speaks to parents of Wilson High School students in the parking lot of GT Church. Ritchey Troutman walked from car to car providing updates, telling parents that no one had been shot and the incident appeared to have been a prank. the location the school district and police set up for them to gather and get information - they were greeted with welcome relief. On Friday, O’Brien and other parents of Wilson High School students didn’t have to imagine.Īs parents began arriving at GT Church a little after 9 a.m. It’s the kind of thing that a parent sees on television or reads about in a newspaper and shudders, imagining the terror and panic they would feel if it was happening at their kid’s school. It was a worst-case scenario, one that has tragically played out time and time again across the U.S.

“I heard lockdown and shooting and Wilson High School and left.” “I honestly didn’t listen to the whole thing,” she said, sitting in her car a few hundred yards from the high school in the parking lot of GT Church about 45 minutes later. The school was on lockdown, the message said, and police were on the scene.

He was saying there was a possible active shooter situation at the high school.

Chris Trickett, Wilson School District superintendent. on Friday, and the voice coming through her phone on the automated call was that of Dr. Danielle O’Brien began to move before the message even finished.

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