See lots of police activity in Bluffton on Friday? It’s a drill, school official says

An active shooter drill at a Beaufort County school Friday morning involved Bluffton police rushing to the campus with their blue lights flashing, according to a Beaufort County School District news release.

The drill — taking place at May River High School just after 10 a.m. — is different than drills the district has conducted in the past, district spokesperson Jim Foster said in the release.

Typically, Bluffton Police Department officers are already at the school before a drill begins, but on Friday they were expecting to respond to the campus “during the course of their regular duties,” the release said.

Parents of students at the school were notified by email and robocall, the release said.

Lana Ferguson

The Island Packet

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Lana Ferguson typically covers stories in northern Beaufort County, Jasper County and Hampton County. She joined The Island Packet & Beaufort Gazette in 2018 as a crime/breaking news reporter. Before coming to the Lowcountry, she worked for publications in her home state of Virginia and graduated from the University of Mississippi, where she was editor-in-chief of the daily student newspaper. Lana was also a fellow at the University of South Carolina’s Media Law School in 2019. Support my work with a digital subscription