Brief Police Barricade Leads Schools to Notify Parents
But a situation in Font Hill was quickly resolved with no injuries.
A suicidal person in the Font Hill neighborhood led police to barricade streets, according to a police spokesperson, but the situation has been resolved and no one was injured.
Several Howard County Public Schools sent out alerts at about 1:30 p.m. notifying parents that the schools were not on "lock-down," but that students and staff were safe at nearby schools, including Centennial High School; Burleigh Manor Middle School and Centennial Lane Elementary School.
By about 2 p.m., according to police spokesperson Sherry Llewellyn, the situation had been resolved without any injuries.
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number9dream
2:40 pm on Friday, December 7, 2012
Why was none of this tweeted or published by Patch? Or HoCo?
Patch is too busy reporting about how many gay and lesbian couples have gotten their marriage certificates.
tyler hilton
2:54 am on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Its not Patch that is too busy reporting on gay and lesbian couples getting their marriage certificates, its you. How pathetic your life must be to want tweets from about things that dont involve you..are you sitting around now looking for your breaking news tweet? lol
Brandie Jefferson
3:22 pm on Friday, December 7, 2012
We did publish something ... You just commented on it! The whole ordeal was very short, so by the time we wrote "something's happening" that "something" was over. You must not follow me (@EllicottPatch) on Twitter, or look at our Facebook page either ... hm?
mcknurse
3:44 pm on Friday, December 7, 2012
If you follow Howard County Police on Facebook there were a couple updates on the situation posted as well.
number9dream
5:16 pm on Friday, December 7, 2012
Sorry, but I won't sully my hands with the likes of Facebook.
I've received some ridiculous "Breaking News" tweets from Patch in the past. Nothing about this? Shame.
john stephens
6:01 pm on Friday, December 7, 2012
maybe you can just give Brandie your phone number and a list of topics that might interest you.
oh and of course, other topics that you might find "ridiculous" so she wont bother you then.
its not a foolproof system but over time you can fine tune it to suit you better.
number9dream
7:03 pm on Friday, December 7, 2012
Please, don't misunderstand me, I think Ms. Jefferson does an excellent job.
As Brandie wrote above, I need to get with the program and follow her on Twitter.