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Cops: Ex-student who triggered lockdown with gun in waistband wanted letter of recommendation

Associated Press
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    Students gather outside Manchester West High School after a 90-minute lockdown was released Thursday Sept. 25, 2014 in Manchester, N.H. Police arrested Damian Johnson, 21, a former student after he showed up in a classroom with a pellet gun in his waistband.(AP Photo/Jim Cole) (The Associated Press)

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    This photo released by the Manchester Police Department shows Damian Johnson, 21, arrested on a charge of criminal trespassing at West High School Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014 in Manchester, N.H. Police seized a knife and a pellet gun that had been tucked into Johnson's waste band. (AP Photo/Manchester Police Department) (The Associated Press)

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    This photo released by the Manchester Police Department shows weapons seized from a man entering West High School Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014 in Manchester, N.H. Police said former student Damian Johnson, 21, was arrested on a charge of criminal trespassing. (AP Photo/Manchester Police Department) (The Associated Press)

MANCHESTER, N.H. – Police say a 21-year-old New Hampshire man who triggered a 90-minute lockdown at his former high school when he showed up with a gun tucked into his waistband had wanted a letter of recommendation from a teacher.

Damian Johnson of Manchester was arraigned Friday on a felony count of falsifying physical evidence and misdemeanor counts of criminal trespass, violation of probation and disrupting school in session. He was jailed on $20,000 bail.

Police say a student at Manchester High School West reported seeing Johnson with the gun Thursday, prompting the lockdown. It turned out to be a pellet gun. He was found in a small, occupied classroom and was arrested without incident.

Manchester Police Chief David Mara said Johnson never made a threat or acted violently.