Mamaroneck Schools Locked Down After A Man With A Gun Attempts to Enter the Middle School

Scarsdale parents learned that Mamaroneck Schools had been closed due to a lockdown on Thursday afternoon when the Varsity Basketball game that was scheduled to be played there had to be moved to SHS.

According to news reports, a man with a gun tried to enter the Hommocks Middle School on Thursday afternoon but was stopped before he could get in. He first tried to get in through a locked side door and then went to the main entrance where he was stopped. When asked what he was doing at the school, and why he had a gun, the man told officials that he had come to the school to retrieve an item of clothing he left in the pool area over the weekend. He explained that he was carrying a gun because he works as a security guard.

He left the premises without an argument, but authorities decided to cancel all afternoon and evening activities as a precautionary measure. Officials said that police will be present at Mamaroneck Schools on Friday morning.