2 Metro Schools Placed on Lockdown Tuesday

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METRO DETROIT – Two Metro Detroit schools were on lockdown Tuesday, one in Oakland County over a threat agains the school and another in Macomb County when a suspect in a domestic violence situation fired on police officers.

Clarkston High School was placed on lockdown on the recommendation of the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office after a bomb threat was called into the central office, The Oakland Press and WWJ radio report.

Authorities don’t think the threat was credible, but placed the school on lockdown as a precaution. The school district said it would communicate by e-mail with parents about when the lockdown would be lifted.

Some people speculated on Twitter that the threat stemmed from school officials’ failure to declare a snow day Tuesday.

In Warren, Van Dyke Public Schools were briefly locked down around noon after police officers investigating shots fired at a house near Van Dyke and Toepher were fired upon by a gunman. Van Dyke was closed north of Eight Mile Road during the incident, but has since reopened.

The responding officer returned fire, Warren Police Commissioner Jere Green told WWJ, and the gunman retreated back into the house.

No one was injured, and the gunman was arrested in the situation, which involved th gunman, his wife and their baby.

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