FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A student at Dillard High School was taken into custody Thursday morning after police received reports of a student who had a gun.
"It was really scary. I guess a man was here to shoot," student Helena Hayes said.
Fort Lauderdale police said no gun was found and a 16-year-old student was arrested for falsely reporting that another student had a gun on school property.
Police said the girl faces a charge of disrupting a school function.
The school was placed on lockdown while police searched the school and the lockdown was later lifted.
Still, many parents chose to pull their children out of school for the day.
"All I could think about was the school shootings that's been going on," Tamika Porter said.
Another parent, Rebecca Johnson, told Local 10 News reporter Roy Ramos that she drove to the school to pick up her son and her niece after her niece called her on Facebook and said she was hiding under a desk.
"As long as she's safe, that's all that matters," Johnson said.
