LOCKDOWN LIFTED Lockdown Lifted At Cedar Grove Elementary
Reported by: Bethany Simmons
Videographer: Bob Aaron
Web Producer: Bethany Simmons
Reported: Dec. 4, 2012 8:52 AM EST
Updated: Dec. 4, 2012 11:37 AM EST
Eyewitness News Photo
Cedar Grove
, Kanawha County
, West Virginia
The lockdown at Cedar Grove Elementary School has been lifted.
Missy Ruddle, assistant superintendent for Kanawha County middle schools, said the lockdown was lifted about 10:30 a.m. Police believed there was no longer a threat at the school.
Officials initially had received a report that a parent was bringing a gun to school Tuesday morning. School officials placed the school on lockdown as a precaution.
Ruddle did not know if the person had been found or what the status of the police investigation was.
Keep checking wchstv.com for updates.
Police are on the scene of a Kanawha County elementary school after officials said a parent threatened to show up with a gun.
Jane Roberts, assistant superintendent with Kanawha County Elementary Schools, told Eyewitness News that Cedar Grove Elementary School was put on lockdown early Tuesday.
Eyewitness News is told the students and staff are not in any danger at this time, but police are on the scene.
Flags to be retired at W.Va. veterans cemetery May 24, 2013 6:50 AM EDT More than 1,000 tattered American flags will be burned during a special ceremony at a West Virginia veterans cemetery on Memorial Day.
Young mother critically hurt, SUV rolled onto her May 24, 2013 7:33 AM EDT Kentucky State Police say a young Elizabethtown mother has been critically injured when her vehicle overturned as she was pushing it.
Insurance lawyer killed in Ohio building fall May 24, 2013 7:50 AM EDT Authorities say a central Ohio insurance lawyer was killed when he fell through the roof of a storm-damaged building he was inspecting.
Bethany Simmons
