The text appears to be a transcript of an audio recording, perhaps from a podcast episode or a documentary. It's difficult to provide a concise summary without context, but here's a basic summary based on the information provided:
The narrator, who identifies themselves as a retired New Jersey police officer, recounts two separate incidents involving school lockdowns. In the first incident, they were a high school student during a lockdown at their school. They and a friend managed to sneak upstairs and around the school, only to encounter a man who turned out to be armed. The man, who was not dressed like a staff member, was attempting to enter a classroom in the basement. The students hid in a bathroom and were eventually discovered by a teacher. After a tense standoff, the man left and the students were escorted out of the school by police.
The second incident occurred when the narrator was a police officer responding to a lockdown at a nearby middle school. They discovered a suspicious-looking man in the boys' locker room, who was attempting to get a trapped 12-year-old boy out of his locker. The boy was bleeding from a cut on his arm. The man was eventually apprehended after a week when his van was spotted in a 7-eleven parking lot.
In a later part of the recording, the narrator recounts a scary experience they had while staying in a Hampton Inn. They were locked in their room during a hotel-wide lockdown. A man was seen in the security footage walking around the hallways, apparently looking for a room. The man was eventually taken out in chains by the authorities.
The narrator ends the recording by stating that the man looked at them as if he knew who they were, which is unsettling.
1. The speaker was 16 years old in their junior year of high school.
2. They had nine periods in a day, with the fifth period being lunch.
3. Their astronomy class was held in one of the two basement classrooms of the school.
4. The school was large, with three floors, and had to build two additional classrooms in the basement to accommodate all the classes offered.
5. The basement classrooms were remodeled to resemble a typical hallway, but they had no intercoms or loudspeakers.
6. The first period of the day was for morning announcements.
7. The speaker and their friend JJ were bored during their astronomy class and decided to sneak upstairs and look around the hallways.
8. They were surprised to find all the lights turned off when they opened the basement door to the main floor.
9. They hid in the bathroom when they saw a man emerging from the darkness.
10. The man was not dressed like any staff member and was dressed like a bum.
11. The speaker and JJ were scared when they heard heavy breathing outside the bathroom stall.
12. The man was seen banging on the bathroom stall door.
13. The teacher led them into JJ's class and locked the door, mentioning a gun sticking out of the man's pocket.
14. The school installed cameras everywhere and increased the security budget after this incident.
15. The speaker was a retired New Jersey police officer and described the most disturbing call they ever received as a school lockdown happening at a nearby middle school.
16. The suspicious-looking man was seen stepping out from a white van parked behind a school and walking into the back door by the boys locker room.
17. The police officer found a boy trapped inside a locker in the locker room.
18. The boy was held by the man with a knife on his back as the man was trying to get the 12-year-old boy to his van.
19. The man's van was spotted a week later in a 7-eleven parking lot where he was arrested after being properly identified.
20. The speaker was staying in a Hampton Inn in New Jersey when they were visiting Rowan University.
21. A strange alarm started going off in their room, along with a white light flashing from the corner of the ceiling.
22. The front desk person told the speaker to remain calm and walk out the door.
23. The speaker noticed a person's face through a tiny crack in the closet door next to the bathroom.
24. The person in the closet was a man of shorter stature, easily in his forties.
25. The authorities took the person out in chains.