PD: Mom's Call Sends Connecticut School Into Lockdown

A mother’s call to her son’s Ansonia school prompted a lockdown after she compared him to the Columbine school shooters.

The incident took place on the third anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and prompted Emmett O’Brien Technical School to go into lockdown. She was arrested by police.

Police got a call from the principal of the school. She reported that Leslie Teixeira, 39, of Derby stated that her son calls her names and hates her. The principal said she called twice and was crying hysterically.

Teixeira allegedly said that she drives by her son’s residence to look at him through the window and that she is scared of him because, “he is like the kid that killed the babies of Columbine and he is an angry child.”

The school was placed into lockdown and her son was escorted to the principal’s office and searched for weapons. No evidence of weapons or the child’s ability to obtain weapons was found, police said.

Teixeira was arrested for breach of peace and was released on a $2,500 bond. She was later involuntarily committed to Bridgeport Hospital due to her actions and her history of mental illness, police said.