Newtown, Conn., schools locked down after person implies threat during telephone call
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Officials in Newtown, Conn., say their school system was placed on lockdown briefly after someone implied a threat during a phone call to a school near the site of last year's school shooting massacre.
Interim schools superintendent John Reed says the threat was made Monday afternoon in a call to Hawley Elementary School. Reed hasn't released details but says no one was hurt.
Hawley is less than 2 miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School, where a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators in December. Newtown has increased school security since then.
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Reed says police Chief Michael Kehoe and other officials responded to Hawley and joined officers stationed there to investigate. He says the chief requested the district-wide lockdown.
The lockdown ended when schools dismissed for the day. It caused busing delays throughout the district.