Man carrying gun prompts precautionary lockdown at Olympia schools
Mar 12, 2013, 8:50 AM | Updated: 11:32 am
Three Olympia schools were placed in lockdown while police searched for a man seen by neighbors carrying a gun.
Roosevelt Elementary, Reeves Middle School, and the Olympia Regional Learning Academy remain in modified lockdown, though the search for the man with the gun has concluded.
The event began when the police received a call around 7:45 a.m. saying a man was seen walking with a gun through a neighborhood near to the schools. The man was reportedly dressed in black wearing a ski mask.
It happened close enough to the two schools that they were locked down as a precaution.
“As far as we know he wasn’t doing anything illegal, it was just concerning that he was walking with a weapon so close to the schools. So we just want to question him and find out what’s going on,” City of Olympia spokesperson Laura Wohl.
Law enforcement individuals from at least three different agencies searched the area and conducted a block by block and air search to see if they could locate the individual.
The person was not located.
