‘He was apprehended, he was arrested. And we went back and looked at the footage,’ said district superintendent Steve VanMatre.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Tuloso-Midway High School had quite the scare Wednesday afternoon when an intoxicated intruder attempted to enter its campus, but superintendent Steve vanMatre said thanks to the school’s layers of security, the man was unable to enter the school.
It was a typical Wednesday afternoon until vanMatre got wind of some shocking news.
“My assistant superintendent for operations and my assistant come barreling in the door,” he said, describing the sequence of events.
He said he was then told that someone attempted to get on the high school’s grounds without permission.
“They tell me that there’s an intruder that’s at the high school that’s currently under arrest,” VanMatre said. “You can imagine what I’m thinking: Is he armed? What happened prior to him being under arrest? Did our safety and security protocols work?”
When …