Sturgeon Heights Collegiate lifts lockdown

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Sturgeon Heights Collegiate briefly went into lockdown Monday afternoon as Winnipeg Police Service officers responded to a “youth in distress.”

In an email sent out by the St. James-Assiniboia School Division, school officials said officers were called to the Ness Avenue high school at about 2:20 p.m. “for a report of a threats-related matter involving a student.”

“As a result, the school was initially placed into a lockdown for precautionary reasons and then, shortly thereafter, moved to a hold and secure,” the email, seen by the Free Press, said.

The hold-and-secure was lifted at about 3:15 p.m.

WPS spokesman Const. Pat Saydak said the incident involved a “male youth in distress.”