GRINNELL, Iowa (AP) - Two central Iowa schools were locked down Tuesday after someone reported spotting a suspicious person near one of them, the school superintendent said.
Superintendent Janet Stutz of the Grinnell district said the district office was notified around 8:40 a.m. that the person was seen outside the high school, not far from a K-2 elementary school. Both schools locked the doors, and students and teachers were told to remain in their classrooms, Stutz said.
Officers and school employees searched the high school and its grounds. It took until around 9:30 a.m. before the person was found somewhere other than inside the school, she said.
Stutz said she didn’t know where the person was found.
Grinnell Police Chief Dennis Reilly did not say in a written statement released Tuesday afternoon where the person was found, but he did confirm Stutz’s description of the morning’s events and said a police investigation “concluded that no criminal act took place and at no time was public safety jeopardized.”
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