Lockdown Lifted For All Hamtramck Public Schools
HAMTRAMCK (WWJ) - Officials confirm that the lockdown of all Hamtramck Public Schools has been lifted.
The situation developed late Wednesday morning.
Hamtramck Schools Superintendent Thomas Niczay says it all started with a phone call -- "at approximately 11:45 an unknown caller contacted the Hamtramck police department indicating an individual with a gun entered or was near Hamtramck High School -- the Hamtramck police put all schools and charter schools on lockdown."
"The cops with the ... assistant principal came from no where .... this is kind of serious. Other times we didn't take it seriously but this time we took it seriously - we had a chopper on top of us," said student Sharook Chodhury from computer class.
Gregory Picket was at the school to pick up his daughter as a precaution:
"There was a gunman there and the police had the school locked down," Picket says he was told by school officials.
Police searched all the schools and did not find a gunman or a weapon and the lockdown was lifted.
Police are still investigating.
School officials tell WWJ the lockdown extended to all buildings in the district. At the time, no one was allowed to enter or exit the buildings, and students were being kept in their classrooms.
The Hamtramck Public School District includes an early childhood center, Dickinson East Elementary, Dickinson West Elementary, Holbrook Elementary, Kosciuszko Middle School, Hamtramck High School, and Horizon High School and Adult Education.
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