New Orleans school placed on lockdown due to gun scare
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The New Orleans Police Department responded Tuesday, April 8 to the scene of a lockdown at an area school.
According to the NOPD, around 11 a.m. officers responded to ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Academy after a man reportedly ran inside the school claiming to have a medical emergency.
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School officials told officers that the man sat down in the foyer of the school, took out a gun but set it down. Staff members reportedly spotted the gun and call 911 but the subject ran off, entering a classroom.
A 'hard lockdown' of the campus was initiated.
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