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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A lockdown at a Los Angeles community college ended Monday after students and staff were evacuated and the campus methodically searched by deputies in response to a caller who said he was heading to the school with guns, authorities said.
The man had called the Los Angeles Valley College's general line at 9:15 a.m. Monday. Students were notified of the threat by text message alerts, and numerous officers responded to the college, which has about 20,000 students.
The college sent out two alerts shortly after 10 a.m. telling students to stay inside or stay away if they weren't at the school.
The lockdown was lifted shortly after 2 p.m., but the investigation will continue as authorities try to determine who placed the call, Los Angeles County sheriff's spokeswoman Nicole Nishida said. There were no reports of shots on campus or signs of an active shooter.
"He's unknown. We don't know if he's a student," Los Angeles sheriff's Deputy Quiana Birkbeck said.
Monday is the last day of final exams at the public two-year college, which sits on 105 acres in the middle of the San Fernando Valley.
The college will remain closed, and operations will resume Tuesday. Finals will be rescheduled.
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