PRICE, Texas — Carlisle Independent School District will dismiss students at 2 p.m. on Friday following a lockdown initiated by the Rusk County Sheriff's Office earlier this morning.
According to Sgt. David Roberts, a rumor of an active shooter at Carlisle ISD began to spread on social media and panicked parents started arriving in droves to pick their children up from school.
The Henderson Daily News reports the exaggerated rumors began circulating after a student was expelled earlier this week for making a threat against two other students. The student who received disciplinary action was not on campus or even in the area on Friday. Sgt. Roberts told the HDN, Friday's incident was initiated by a parent's post on social media. Rumors of an arrest being made are aslo false.
Sgt. Roberts tells CBS19 there was no shooter, nor is there currently, and the lockdown was implemented for the sole purpose of controlling the flow of students and parents going in and out of the school.
The district made the decision to release students early when they realized there were only a few students left in each class.
CISD says buses will run at the time school is let out.
"If you choose to pick your child up early please feel free to do so," the district said in a statement.
District officials say they have made every effort to cooperate with law enforcement in regards to this incident.
