Suspect arrested, lockdown lifted at Visalia school after rifle report

VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A 21-year-old antheral was arrested aft officers responded to Willow Glen School pursuing reports of a antheral with an battle rifle, according to the Visalia Police Department. 

Police accidental the schoolhouse was placed connected lockdown astir 8:15 a.m. and officers rapidly detained the fishy without incident. 

Police accidental that the battle firearm was really an airsoft gun. 

The lockdown has since been lifted, and determination is nary ongoing menace to the school. 

The fishy was identified arsenic 21-year-old Edwar Woodard. He volition beryllium booked astatine the Tulare County Adult Pre-Trial Facility for exposing an imitation firearm successful a nationalist place, according to police.