Students and staff were confined at Collège Lionel\u002DGroulx for four hours after police received a call about a “possibly armed individual.”
“The premises and people inside have been secured,” the Régie de police Thérèse-De Blainville said in a statement. The lockdown was lifted at 6 p.m. and as of 8:30 p.m., the evacuation of the school had been completed.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
More than a dozen police cars were dispatched to the school, with officers sweeping the sprawling site for hours in search of a possible gunman.It’s unclear how many people were in the school during the lockdown. At 4:30 p.m., police said only about 100 people were inside.Article content Police look in a doorway outside Collége Lionel-Groulx in Ste-Thérèse, north of Montreal, on Friday, Nov. 18, 2022, after reports of a suspicious individual outside the CEGEP.Anyone with information is asked to call 450-435-2421, extension zero. Police said the information will be treated anonymously and confidentially.
“If you are on the grounds outside the college, you must leave immediately. Classes are suspended for the rest of the day. Potential active shooter.”
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