BATON ROUGE — A potential threat at Tara High School turned out to be a hoax after police and the sheriff’s office responded to a report of a student with a gun Monday morning.
Administrators put the school on lockdown, and students were temporarily evacuated while law enforcement swept inside.
“We received a dispatch call relative to a juvenile saying he had a gun and wanted to hurt himself and others, and he gave us a name,” Lt. L’jean McKneely said…