Midland Park High School reopens after yesterday afternoon lockdown
Friday, September 28, 2012 Last updated: Friday September 28, 2012, 7:07 PM
BY ABBOTT KOLOFF AND MARLENE NAANES
STAFF WRITERS
The Record
MIDLAND PARK — The Midland Park High School and a disabled children’s school were ordered locked down Friday afternoon when a man wearing a red vest fired a rifle behind a church and then disappeared into the woods on Friday, officials said.
The lockdown was called off a little more than an hour later after Bergen County police K-9 units were unable to find the man and authorities determined there was no threat, said Acting Chief Michael Marra of the Midland Park police.
The driver of a school bus for the Children’s Therapy Center, for children with disabilities, located at the Church of the Nativity, heard a bang and then saw a man holding what appeared to be a rifle just off an access road at 2:40 p.m., Marra said. Two other bus drivers also heard a bang and saw a cloud of smoke.
Marra said the man may have been hunting but added that it’s not shotgun- or rifle-hunting season. Hunters are prohibited from carrying loaded firearms within 450 feet of any building, even if it is unoccupied, unless they have the permission of the owner, according to state law.
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