Student Under Evaluation After Making Columbine-Like Threat At School

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- Some concerns for students, parents and staff at a West Baltimore high school, forced into lockdown after the threat of mass violence.

Amy Yensi has more on how it unfolded.

The school first learned of the threat through social media and decided to take it very seriously.

Students at Carver Vocational Technical High School spill into the streets after a nearly two-hour lockdown.

"I was so scared. Like, me and my friends were actually huddled up in a corner, scared for our lives," said Hakeem McDonald, student.

McDonald says students were told to stay away from the windows and sit around the walls during the Code Red alert.

Police searched the campus after school officials learned that a 15-year-old student there made a threat on Facebook referencing the Columbine mass shooting.

"We got a notification on Facebook saying it was a mass shooting threat relating to the Columbine that happened in April of 1999," said Marlon Sample, student.

"It's a panic. I just went into prayer mode. I just started praying, praying, praying," said Chanell Collick, parent.

Worried parents rushed to the school.

"When I realized it was real, I kind of cried a little bit. So I hit it right over," said Shneika Brown, parent.

Students tell WJZ they were never officially dismissed from school, but decided to walk out on their own because they were concerned for their safety. Others stayed after the lockdown was lifted.

"The first thing I thought about was Sandy Hook, and then they said they connected it back to the Columbine shooting. I searched it up--it made me even more nervous than what I was," said Malik Lambert, student.

Police say they did not find anything threatening in their search of the campus or the student's home.

The student was taken to an area hospital for an emergency evaluation. They are not being identified.

During a Code Red, no one is allowed in or out of the school building.