Lockdown lifted at St. Paul's Como Park High after gun rumor
Updated 1:45 p.m. | Posted 12:39 p.m.
Rumors of a gun led officials to put St. Paul's Como Park High School into lockdown for about an hour Monday.
The lockdown was lifted just before 12:45 p.m. Students are safe.
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St. Paul Public Schools spokesperson Toya Stewart Downey said one student reported a classmate may have brought a gun to school.
"A student overheard another student, who was on a phone, say to the person at the other end of the phone line that he had a weapon in his possession," Downey said.
The school went into lockdown at 11:45 a.m. and received the all clear to lift the lockdown at 12:41 p.m. after police searched the school and didn't find a weapon.
The student reported to have a weapon was detained for questioning.