Stephanie Buffamonte of FOX 35 Orlando was standing outside Lake Brantley High School in Altamonte Springs when she explained how close this situation may have come to turning into something much worse, and how quickly it unraveled once one student decided to speak up.
The way Buffamonte laid it out, it didn’t start with a metal detector alarm or a fight in a hallway, but with a tip – one student overhearing a conversation about wanting to hurt someone, and then using the school’s anonymous reporting system to say what they heard.
That choice, small as it sounds, is the kind of moment that can change everything, because it moves danger out of the “rumor” phase and into the “police are now looking” phase, which is exactly what happened here…