Newtown, Conn. Schools Briefly Placed on Lockdown
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Newtown schools were briefly placed on lockdown early Monday afternoon due to an unspecified threat, police said.
In an email to parents, Schools Superintendent John Reed said schools were placed on a "modified lockdown" after Hawley School officials received a phone call at 2:05 p.m. containing an "implied threat" to school staff and students.
The lockdown was requested by Police Chief Michael Kehoe, Reed said in the email.
Newtown High School and Newtown Middle School dismissals were delayed as buses did not leave on schedule, he said.
"The FBI is intimately involved in helping to investigate this call as well as others that we have received in past months," he said.
No further details were immediately available.
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