Santa Clarita students safe after scare involving man with machete
Authorities say students at a Santa Clarita elementary school are safe after a man reportedly armed with a machete barricaded himself in a nearby home.
Around 2:30 p.m., Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies responded to a reported assault with a deadly weapon on Plumwood Avenue near Canyon Springs Community Elementary School, said Deputy Kabrina Borbon of the sheriff’s Santa Clarita Valley station.
The incident prompted the elementary school to go on lockdown.
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School resource deputies assisted authorities in a “very successful evacuation of the campus,” and students were reunited with their parents, said Robert Jensen, spokesperson for the sheriff’s station.
“The school did a great job letting students out the west gate away from the [incident area], and it was a really, really smooth partnership,” Jensen said.
The sheriff’s Special Enforcement Bureau assisted at the home where the man was barricaded, and he was taken into custody without incident.
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