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Lockdown Lifted in Colfax UPDATE

The lockdown has been lifted, and students are home from Colfax High School and Colfax Elementary. Placer County Sheriff’s Sergeant Nelson Resendes says three elementary school students told teachers that they saw a man with a gun…

Listen to Nelson Resendes

The Sheriff’s department put up a perimeter around the campuses, sent in three search teams, and also had a CHP helicopter overhead looking for the suspect. Lieuntenant John Poretti says there was no sign of the man…

Listen to John Poretti 1

Poretti says School Resources Officers will likely interview the three kids again tomorrow…

Listen to John Poretti 2

Poretti says the lockdown was appropriate, to make sure that there was no immediate threat to any of the students or anyone in the area.

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