BB gun-wielding man prompts lockdown at Pa. school

YORK, Pa. (AP) — Police say a man seen with a gun near a York elementary school was simply protecting his pigeons from cats, but not before a sighting prompted the school to lock down and send children home.

York City Police Capt. Wes Kahley said today the man was using a BB gun to shoot the cats that were attacking the pigeons he raises for a living.

Kahley says the man did not commit a crime, but exercised bad judgment.

York schools Superintendent Sharon Miller says the report of a gun-wielding man outside Alexander Goode Elementary School came in at 8 a.m.

Police and county sheriff’s officers surrounded the building with about a dozen vehicles.

Some students cried as they left school while parents who had heard the rumors waited anxiously.