Lake Worth Middle School Shooting Investigations – Thursday, Lake Worth Middle School was put on lockdown. Now, the police are looking into what happened. The School District of Palm Beach County says the school is on lockdown as a safety measure while police look into a report of a suspicious event. Students are safe.. Lake Worth Middle School is located in the area of 1300 Barnett Dr, Lake Worth, FL
A statement released by the District officials reads:
“The school remains in a precautionary lockdown. All students are safe. The lockdown was called to give police the full access to search the campus to investigate the possibility of suspicious activity. Nothing out of the ordinary has been discovered. Please do not come to the campus, we will continue to update you.”
The district confirmed there’s no indication of any suspicious activity or anything out of the ordinary.
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On Friday, police shot and killed a 39-year-old man in Weslaco after he told a negotiator that he could see officers and was going to kill them. The Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office sent a custodial death report about the death of Rigo Mendez to the Texas Attorney General’s Office on Tuesday. The report gives more details about the shooting that led to two deputies and two Texas Department of Public Safety troopers being put on administrative leave, as is standard for both agencies.
According to the custodial death report, deputies and troopers went to Mendez’s home at 7112 Mile 3 1/2 Road at about 3:24 p.m. after a concerned citizen called dispatch to say that someone at the house was shooting while children were there. After the shooting, Hidalgo County Sheriff J.E. “Eddie” Guerra said on Twitter that neighbors had called the police to say they heard shots inside the house and were worried about the children inside.
The custodial death report said that when they got there, Mendez was inside the house with a gun. The report said, “The deputies then heard gunshots coming from inside the house.” “The deputies hid because they could see that shots were being fired at them.” The DPS troopers then arrived, and a negotiator talked to Mendez. “He said he could see police officers and was going to kill them,” the negotiator said. The report said that Mendez left the house with a gun through the garage.
The report said, “At that point, shots were fired back and forth, and the suspect fell to the ground.” In that document, it said that deputies gave Mendez first aid right away and that he was flown to a hospital in Edinburg, where he died. According to the report, he died at 5:17 p.m. If Mendez had lived, he would have been charged with two counts of trying to kill someone with the death penalty, and the report said he also did crimes against children.
The Texas Rangers and a sheriff’s office team that looks into police shootings are still looking into what happened.
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