'We are on a code red .. its real. I love you': Dad rushes to Dreyfoos after daughter's text

WEST PALM BEACH — Bob Sullivan's 16-year-old daughter attends Dreyfoos School of the Arts.

Sullivan was shopping at Aldi Friday when he received a string of text messages from his daughter.

"Hi dad we are on a code red right now. Its real. I love you,” she wrote.

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Friday afternoon, a van crashed through a metal fence and onto the Dreyfoos campus in West Palm Beach with city police in pursuit, sending the school into lockdown. A West Palm Beach police officials say the city police shot the man who had gotten out of the van and was acting erratically.

Upon reading his daughter's texts about the incident, Sullivan immediately dropped his groceries and rushed to the school, imagining the “worst-case scenario,” he recounted, fighting back tears.