Micanopy Area Cooperative School was placed on lockdown after a man threatened parents waiting to pick up their children with a gun and a dead possum.

Micanopy Area Cooperative School was placed on lockdown after a man living near the school threatened parents waiting to pick up their children with a gun.

Alachua County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Chris Sims said the man, who was placed in custody, came out of his residence waving a gun, telling people to get off the road.

The man then picked up a dead possum, threw it at a parent and said he would eat it for dinner.

ASO received a call about the incident at 2:08 p.m. School is usually dismissed at 2:15.