Woodbridge area schools evacuated after lockdown
A Prince William County police officer directs traffic on West Longview Drive Wednesday as students are loaded onto buses. They will be transported to Fred M. Lynn Middle School to be reunited with their parents after their school was on lockdown for more than three hours.
Prince William County police are evacuating three Woodbridge area schools after they were locked down earlier today.
Students are being loaded onto school buses at Marumsco Hills Elementary School and will be taken to nearby Fred M. Lynn Middle School to reunite with their parents, according to Irene Cromer of Prince William County Schools.
“Fred Lynn is considered the reunification site,” said Cromner.
Two other schools in the area, Elizabeth Vaughn Elementary and Woodbridge Middle School will be evacuated too. Cromer said those students would most likely be taken to Lynn as well.
An automated phone call made to parents of Woodbridge Middle School students about 5:45 p.m. today said children at that school would be evacuated beginning at 6 p.m.
The message did not include where parents could meet their children.
More than 60 parents who lined up outside of Marumsco Hills Elementary before3 p.m. to pick up their children only found a police barricade and officials telling them to wait.
“I’ve got one little one in there and we are just waiting here for him to get out,” said Miguel Benitez, who was waiting for his son to be released from the school.
Benetiez said he and his wife, Monique, moved from Los Angeles more than a year ago to escape the problems of the inner city. He said this situation reminds him of living in Southern California.
Just after 1:30 p.m. today police closed roads and diverted traffic away from the schools after they received a report that a suspect in a recent murder at nearby Bayside Avenue may have barricaded himself inside his home in the 2100 block of Culpeper Drive.
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Response to lightskin….You don’t like Prince William schools, move away.
The inner city of L.A is an evil gang ridden illegal’s paradise i would have moved away from there too. Then again these individuals might be illegal as well, since that is pretty common there. LOL Chris Cummings
The problem I have with the whole situation is, the school had my nephew for four hours and feed him
only an apple and crackers. The school system is not organized at all. They said the suspect was in the area and concluded that he wasn’t. How in the world do they expect these kids to want to attend school everyday. I seen kids crying in every class as I picked my nephew up. I’m very disappointed with the system right now. I met my cousin at the school and she informed me that she did’t even get the call. She found out through the news. What a disappointment…..
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