Lake Travis Middle School sits right next to Lake Travis High School.
The Lake Travis school district has fired a custodial worker who said she saw a man with a gun at Lake Travis Middle School in early December, prompting a four-hour security lockdown of that campus, the neighboring high school, and an administrative building.
“Upon extensive review of the incident, District officials have concluded that there exists no evidence to substantiate the claim” of seeing a gunman, the district said in a letter sent to parents. The letter says the employee was fired at 4 p.m. Friday.
The lockdown on December 9 rattled nerves as law enforcement swarmed the scene, scouring for a suspect. Agents from the Travis County SWAT Team, several local police departments and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives conducted several sweeps but never found a gunman.
