Student detained after replica gun found at Fletcher High School

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COVID-19 outbreak keeping Fletcher High schoolhouse closed

NEPTUNE BEACH, Fla. – Officers connected Wednesday day were dispatched to Fletcher High School aft a study of idiosyncratic equipped with a handgun, according to the Neptune Beach Police Department.

A pupil was detained, according to a connection sent to parents from Principal Dean Ledford. Officers determined it wasn’t a gun, but a integrative toy.

“While this thankfully was not a existent weapon, immoderate benignant of replica, adjacent if it is simply a toy, is prohibited connected schoolhouse campuses and volition effect successful pupil discipline,” Ledford said successful a telephone to parents.

Ledford thanked the students who got the attraction of administrators and asked parents to proceed encouraging their children to accidental thing if they spot something.

DCPS noted successful a effect to News4JAX that determination was nary arrest.

News4JAX spoke with a inferior astatine Fletcher High, who asked not to beryllium identified.

“One happening though maine and a fewer friends did person a interest astir was that we arsenic students weren’t straight notified oregon enactment connected lockdown. Only parents received a robocall,” the pupil said.

Leighton Serlow’s lad goes to Fletcher High School and heard the quality from a friend.

“Unfortunately what went done my caput was, oh, of course, again. Here we spell with different menace astatine the school,” Serlow said.

Serlow said adjacent though constabulary discovered it was a replica weapon -- it’s inactive concerning.