COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — The Columbus Police Department released a statement on the brief lockdown some local schools underwent today.
Read the statement in full below:
“CPD responded to a domestic incident in which a man made threats toward his family and an unidentified school. The male subject has a history of mental illness and is known to frequent the Flat Rock Park area. As a precaution, schools in the area were placed on a brief lockdown. Officers located the man and transported him to a treatment facility. No one was injured during this incident.”
– The Columbus Police Department
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