Several Columbus, OH schools seem to be still on lockdown, although one has been lifted:
http://www.nbc4i.com/midwest/cmh/news.apx.-content-articles-CMH-2007-09-13-0025.html
My feeling is that this may be connected to a drug bust yesterday in that area:
http://www.10tv.com/?sec=&story=site...904653404.html
All clear:
Gunshots prompt brief lockdown at seven Columbus schools
Thursday, September 13, 2007 3:45 PM
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Seven Columbus City Schools were released from lockdown around 3:40 p.m. today after gunshots were reported on the Near West Side.
Schools got the all-clear from Columbus police, district spokesman Michael Straughter said. “ Students have been released to their parents and buses are rolling.”
He said students were released with a letter encouraging them to go straight home.
Avondale, Dana, Sullivant, Burroughs and West Mound elementary schools, Starling Middle School and SuccessWorks Academy were placed under lockdown after gunshots were fired in the area of Avondale Avenue and W. Rich Street about 2:15 p.m.
Sgt. Richard Weiner said police cruisers had been in the area to investigate a stabbing from earlier today. One man was arrested in that case.
As the four officers in the last two cruisers were about to leave, they heard multiple gunshots, Weiner said. The officers, unsure if they were being fired at, called for assistance.
No cruiser was hit, and no shooters were found. Bullets were found in the side of a house at 234 Avondale and in a tree across from 248 Avondale but officers were unsure if they were from today’s shooting or previous incidents, Weiner said.
Police planned to stay in the area until school buses dropped off neighborhood children, Weiner said.
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2007/09/13/gunshots.html