Multiple threats caused lockdowns across MSCS, officials say
Memphis-Shelby County Schools Superintendent Marie Feagins, flanked by Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner and Memphis Police Department Interim Chief C.J. Davis, updates the community about threats that prompted mass school lockdowns Sept. 18. (Screenshot Memphis-Shelby County Schools social media)
Three students have been detained in connection to a threat at Whitehaven High School, according to law enforcement, but active investigations remain into additional threats made to other Memphis schools on Wednesday, Sept. 18.
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Laura Testino is an enterprise reporter on The Daily Memphian’s metro team who writes most often about how education policies shape the lives of children and families. She regularly contributes to coverage of breaking news events and actions of the Tennessee General Assembly. Testino’s journalism career in Memphis began six years ago at The Commercial Appeal, where she began chronicling learning disruptions associated with the pandemic, and continued with Chalkbeat, where she dug into education administration in Memphis. Her reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Times-Picayune, The Tuscaloosa News and USA Today.
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