PHILIPPI, W.Va. (AP) — A report of someone with a gun inside a West Virginia high school led authorities to isolate and arrest a suspect in the building Tuesday, State Police said. Students were evacuated and no injuries were reported.
The suspect wasn't immediately identified after being taken into custody.
State Police spokesman Lt. Michael Baylous said the matter began as a "hostage-type situation" at the Philip Barbour High School in a north-central area of the state thought he didn't elaborate on exactly what had happened.
Baylous said the suspect was believed to have had a gun and was subsequently isolated inside the school. After the incident was reported, the school was evacuated, and students were taken off the school grounds by bus.
Baylous didn't immediately have further details.
Steve Saltis was among several parents who went to the school and waited outside an area cordoned off by police tape while waiting for students to be released. Saltis said by phone that his daughter attends the school and that "a lot" was going through his mind while he waited for her to head home.
Saltis said many students had been sitting in the school's football stadium after the school was evacuated and that he was able to talk to his daughter. But Saltis said law enforcement officials told parents nothing while the suspect was still in the school.
Philippi is a town of 3,000 residents about 115 miles south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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