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 Students inside Canandaigua Academy say it was a scary situation. Student Rob Spedick said, “It was kind of scary I guess because we didn't know what was going on."
Students say it was hectic. Just after 11 this morning the principal came over the loud speaker ordering students into their classrooms. The school was in lockdown.
Student Kylie Bellis said, “She sounded awful we've never hear her sound like that before. I just sat down I was like really really upset"
After the building was searched, students were escorted single file out of the building and onto buses. Ordered, they say, to put their hands on their heads. We all remember a similar scene after Columbine.
“They looked scared these kids looked scared." Parent Robin Minor raced to the middle school where the students were evacuated to. “This is guns this is explosives this is dangerous. It’s scary to send your kids off to school."
Like many parents, Minor expected to pick her son up and take him home but for safety reasons all students were bused home. Many parents were frustrated and angry because they couldn't contact their children and they say the school wasn't contacting them
Parent Harlan Spollio said, “The school system did not get out the parent alert system I was here two hours later and that's when my phone rang.”
Parents and students say they're shaken up that someone could so easily bring a gun into school. Spedick said, “It’s kind of frightening. To think they could walk right in and nothing stopping them at all."
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