Crime & Safety
UPDATE: West Point Lockdown Lifted
The academy was briefly shut down while a suspicious vehicle was searched for.
WEST POINT, NY — The lockdown at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point was lifted after a suspicious vehicle was located.
Sources told News 12 that someone said they had spotted a person who looked similar to the Chelsea bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami, but it wasn’t him.
For more, go to News 12 here.
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WEST POINT, NY — The U.S. Military Academy is on lockdown Monday morning.
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News 12 reported that the institution took the action after a suspicious vehicle went through a security gate.
The lockdown comes after explosive devices were detonated in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan and Seaside Park, New Jersey, over the weekend.
#BREAKING: @WestPoint_USMA on lockdown after suspicious car made its way through security gate. @News12WC at 10am pic.twitter.com/K5pggBLrad
— Michelle Brown (@MichelleBNews12) September 19, 2016
The FBI released a name and photograph Monday of a suspect in the Chelsea bombing that injured 29, Ahmad Khan Rahami.
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