Thursday, April 19, 2007

Jittery Maryland Schools Go Into Lockdown

From today's Baltimore Sun:
Eight Anne Arundel County schools with thousands of students were locked down for several hours yesterday after a man showed up at a high school in women's clothing and asked to see a female student, authorities said.

The man, thought by police to be Antonio Moore, 20, of Brooklyn Park, left North County High School in Ferndale after an officer stationed at the school learned that the girl was not expecting a visitor and alerted police.

As a precaution, North County and four nearby elementary schools, two middle schools and an early education center - which have a combined enrollment of nearly 5,000 - were locked down, meaning that students and staff were instructed to stay in classrooms behind locked doors. Parents were told that they could not pick up their children.
The mysterious visitor is a person of interest for the police in an the death of another man in the area.

My question from this story is why the mystery visitor wasn't detained until matters could be settled. But that is just me.

Update: 4:30pm. The suspect has been apprehended in Baltimore.

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