Substitute teacher arrested after allegedly triggering false active shooter alerts at 5 schools: sheriff

A substitute teacher in Louisiana was arrested after authorities say she triggered false active shooter alerts at five schools, prompting security responses across the district. Lytonja Barfield, 58, was booked on five counts of menacing after an investigation into the alerts Wednesday, Caddo Parish Sheriff Henry Whitehorn Sr. announced.

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The Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office began investigating after officials with the Caddo Parish School Board contacted the agency about possible threats after emergency alerts at several schools.

FLORIDA 12-YEAR-OLD ACCUSED OF THREATENING TEACHER, SAYING SHE WILL ‘SHOOT UP’ SCHOOL Don Gibbs, the school board’s director of security, told investigators that Barfield, a substitute teacher, had allegedly used the district’s emergency management system to report active shooters at five schools, according to the sheriff’s office.