A 23-year-old Dacula man was arrested after he tried to get inside Friendship Elementary School in Buford Thursday morning, the Hall County Sheriff’s Office says. The man’s actions prompted a brief lockdown at the school.
The Hall County Sheriff’s Office says Jhourdan Gibbs showed up at the school around 8:45 a.m. and tried to get in the front door. He first pulled on the door handle and then rang the doorbell to get someone’s attention. When a front office worker answered, Gibbs told her he needed to use the restroom and asked to be let in. The worker refused, and Gibbs then walked around the building trying to open other doors.
School staff called law enforcement and placed the school on an external lockdown. Gibbs then left the property in his vehicle.
Investigators used school security video to identify Gibbs and locate him at his Dacula address. After interviewing him, they arrested Gibbs and charged him with criminal trespass, loitering at a public school, and disruption of a public school. All three charges are misdemeanors.
Gibbs remains in the Hall County Jail.
