Clark High School in soft lockdown due to nearby police activity

Clark High School was in a soft lockdown Friday due to police activity nearby, according to Clark County School District Police Department Lt. Bryan Zink.

At 1 p.m., the school was placed on the district’s SECURE protocol, documents show. Under this protocol, students remain in their classrooms with locked doors, continuing school as usual.

Just before 11:45 a.m., Metropolitan Police Department officers responded to a residence in the 4300 block of El Conlon Avenue, several blocks away from the high school, due to a person threatening family members with a firearm, police said.

It has not yet been confirmed whether the incident sparked the security measures at Clark High School.

Police said they declared the incident a barricade as the person refused to comply with officers. The person was taken into custody.

All family members were safely out of the residence, and SWAT and crisis negotiators were on scene, police said.

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