Police have locked down Lodi High School in Lodi, N.J., on Tuesday, according to reports. Staff and students were reportedly evacuated but this has yet to be confirmed.
Officials later said that the lockdown for the Hasbrouck Heights School District and Lodi High School were lifted at 11:30 a.m., according to ABC-7.
CBS New York said that the lockdown was done as a precautionary measure. It also confirmed that it was lifted.
Sources told Fox NY that an anonymous threat was sent to the high school.
ABC noted that an anonymous tip telling about “some incident” inside the school caused the lockdown.
“We were in gym class, and on the loudspeaker, all you hear is lockdown, lockdown,” a student told ABC. “So we just got into lockdown mode. We would hide inside the showers and lockdown all the buildings, and we were just sitting there. And then the cops came to the door and said, ‘We’re the police. Are you guys safe?’...They called lockdown off after they cleared the building. They just wanted to make sure everything was safe. We got patted down by police and got released one by one.”
Police carried out a search and found nothing.
Aerial footage from ABC shows parents waiting outside the high school.
Fox reported that the students were sent home but this conflicts with what ABC and CBS are reporting.
There were rumors spread on Twitter that there might have been a gunman or shooter at Lodi High School.
“STEVE TACKLED THE GUY WHO SHOT UP LODI HIGH,” reads one.
