19-year-old arrested in threat of Hillsborough High student

TAMPA -- Tampa police arrested a suspect they said threatened to "get" his 15-year-old girlfriend and caused a modified lockdown of Hillsborough High on Wednesday.

District spokeswoman Linda Cobbe said students were dismissed without issue and the football team started its outdoor practice.

"It was just a very calm, regular school day," Cobbe said.

Frederick Alex Jackson, 19, of 5038 Temple Heights Road, Tampa, was contacted by officers around 5:30 p.m. and turned himself in. After being questioned by detectives, he was jailed on three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, police said. He was being held on $6,000 bail.

Police and administrators put the campus, at 5000 N Central Ave., on modified lockdown starting at 7:20 a.m. in response to the threat.

Police say Jackson, who is not a student, pulled out a gun at 6 a.m. at his girlfriend's bus stop and said he was going to get her at the bus stop or at school.

In an unrelated matter Wednesday morning, a 16-year-old female student called in a bomb threat from her cell phone while in class, Davis said. She faces a felony charge of making a false bomb threat to a school.

Rebecca Catalanello, Times Staff Writer

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