Lockdown lifted after possible gun-sighting at Newton HS

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The lockdown has been lifted at Newton High School. The school was placed in a lockdown situation Tuesday morning; officials say law enforcement officers have the situation under control.

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The lockdown happened after 9-1-1 dispatchers received a report of a person possibly with a gun on the school grounds.

Some students reported seeing two other students carrying a white and orange object resembling a gun to a vehicle in the parking lot; the two students then drove away.

Many students evacuated the school, but officials say there was no active disturbance nor danger; no one with a weapon ever entered the school.

The two students in question have been identified.

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