The man arrested Saturday for aggressively confronting students inside Woodlawn Middle School last year and threatening to shoot them was picked up on a routine warrant check 14 months after his actions put the school on temporary lockdown, police say.
Elijah Morris, 24, was taken into custody by East Baton Rouge sheriff’s deputies responding to a disturbance call at a local Super 8 motel. Deputies then discovered an outstanding arrest warrant signed by a judge six days after the March 11, 2024, incident at Woodlawn.
Elijah Christopher, a school resource officer who filed an affidavit for arrest after the incident, worked full time as a correctional officer with the Sheriff’s Office. He has since been fired and arrested for beating an inmate on the job, and is also accused in a federal lawsuit of raping a female inmate…