Outraged Parent Goes Off as Maryland School Remains on Lockdown After Shooting: ‘I Want My Son Out!’

A parent standing in the rain outside Great Mills High School, which is currently on lockdown, made a harrowing plea to be reunited with her son, who is inside.

“I mean, you have no metal detectors, they’re not searching these kids’ backpacks, they don’t know what these kids have when they get to these school buildings,” the unidentified mother told local news outlet WSFJ. “And then you get calls that your kids are not with you anymore. Something needs to be done.”

The interviewer then asked her what her son had said about the shooting.

“He didn’t say much, that he heard the gunshots and he took off running and told the teacher that someone must have been shot,” she said. “And I’m so thankful to the lord that he spared my son.”

“Because bullets have no names!” she continued. “I’m sitting here, they’re telling me to go to some school in Leonardtown, but I’m sitting here because I don’t want to go there. I want my son out of that school. I’m waiting for them to release my son.

“They’re telling us to go to some school. I just can’t go there,” she added.

“The plan is to bus the children over to Leonardtown” High School and they’re going to have reunions in the auditorium there where you won’t be in the rain and it’ll be safe,” the reporter said.

“I don’t care about being in the rain. I want my son out of there. I want him out,” she replied.

Watch above, via CNN and WJLA.

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