CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Video from a Channel 9 viewer showed MEDIC’s Mass Casualty Evacuation Unit outside Cochrane Middle School Friday. Another video from inside the building showed paramedics standing by with a stretcher.
Seven students got sick after eating something they'd gotten from a schoolmate.
“Several students at our school became ill today after ingesting an unknown substance provided to them by another student,” the principal said in a message to parents.
He didn't say what that substance was.
“Our investigation into this incident is ongoing and we have contacted all families of students who are directly involved,” he said.
“Yeah, yeah it was Friday, they gave me a call on my cellphone,” parent Mitchell Blackmon said.
His stepdaughter is a student at the school.
“Scary? Yeah, it was. I was shocked,” Blackmon said.
He and others were concerned because the word around the school was that it was some kind of drug added to cookies or brownies that had made the students sick.
“My daughter kind of told me something here and there but I don't know exactly what's going on,” parent Susanna Phan said.
Parents had an important message for their children.
“Don't buy stuff from people you don't know,” parent Anita Hernandez said. “They might be your friends at school, but you never know if it has something worse in it that could kill you.”
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