Friday, January 28, 2011

 

OVERREACTION: Walmart Locked Down After Cell Phone is Identified as Gun

Report of armed man leads to lockdown at Wal-Mart

A report of an armed man acting erratically in the Wal-Mart parking lot Wednesday led to the store being temporarily locked down before Kirksville Police responded to and defused the situation with no injuries.

According to Kirksville Police Chief Jim Hughes, a passerby stopped a Kirksville Police officer and said they had seen an individual acting erratically in a truck in the Wal-Mart parking lot shortly before 2:30 p.m. The passerby believed the individual had a gun to his head...

...The individual was talking on a cell phone at the time of the incident. It's likely that is the object the passerby identified as a gun...

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