Texas A&M Lockdown Ends
By: Dylan Brooks
Updated: October 28, 2010
COLLEGE STATION -- The lockdown at Texas A&M University's College Station campus has ended, after police found that a suspected gunman was actually carrying a replica weapon.
Police had originally thought that the suspected gunman was carrying an AK-47. All students, faculty and staff were been asked to shelter in place as police searched for the gunman, after a campus bus driver reported seeing a person carrying a rifle near a building next the student union around 4 PM Thursday.
The suspected gunman was spotted about two miles from where the university was preparing to hold an event with former President George H.W. Bush and former first ladies Barbara Bush and Laura Bush.
The university used it's Code Maroon emergency notification system to e-mail and text students, faculty and staff the shelter-in-place order. The lockdown lasted more than an hour.
