South Valley school lockdown lifted
Posted at: 10/27/2009 3:22 PM
| Updated at: 10/27/2009 6:11 PM
By: Matthew Kappus, KOB.com
Ernie Pyle and Rio Grande were put on lockdown around 2:30 this afternoon
APS has lifted lockdowns at all South Valley schools after a two-hour search for an armed suspect.
Ernie Pyle and Kit Carson Middle Schools and Rio Grande High School students were supposed to get out around 3:00 p.m. But after an armed man fled from sheriff's deputies in the area, all three schools were put on lockdown around 2:30 Tuesday afternoon.
Kit Carson, which was on a school-wide lockdown, began letting students home around 3:00 p.m.. However, Rio Grande and Ernie Pyle students weren't allowed to leave school until around 5:00 this evening.
BCSO say a Hispanic man was pulled over this afternoon and he pulled a gun on an officer. A chase ensued,
The man was taken into custody Tuesday evening.
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