Englewood High School was placed on lockdown Tuesday due to a rumor about a potential school shooting — a day after a student was arrested for having guns in his car , school officials said.
The two incidents followed weeks of arrests of students, some as young as 11, at schools in Duval, Putnam and St. Johns counties after threats of violence to other children and schools.
The 17-year-old Englewood student was charged with three counts of possession of a firearm on school property, along with three more for gun possession by a minor, according to a newly released arrest report. The teen, whose home address was about a mile from the school, also was charged with possession of burglary tools, the report said…