Life on Florida’s West Coast

School Lockdown

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Today when I went to pick up Gigi from school, I buzzed to get in and nobody triggered the lock to admit me. For a long time. It was unsettling. Finally, Gigi’s teacher came to the front door of the school and opened it just a teensy bit. Motioning me inside, she told me the school was under lockdown.

What?

Apparently five public schools and all of the private schools in the immediate area were under lockdown while the police looked for the shooter(s) that fired at a car, killing one of the two brothers inside.

Holy cow.

Apparently schools and churches are magnet for freaks running from the police. After a manhunt, 19-year-old Gaylord Shaw was arrested just before 9:30 p.m. and charged with first-degree murder. That put him on-the-run for just about 9 hours.

It all started with an argument outside a convenience store around 12:40 p.m. Eventually, bullets were fired at the car that held brothers Michael Scott, 23, and Antonio Scott, 24. The Scotts sped off and crashed into a nearby pole. Michael Scott was killed and Antonio Scott was injured.

Reports of are not clear as to whether the bullets of the crash killed Michael Scott.

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