Lockdowns lifted for Lakeland schools

RATHDRUM — Four schools in the Lakeland Joint School District went into lockdown mode this morning after an elementary student reported seeing a man with a gun in the wooded area behind Lakeland High School.

The lockdown for Lakeland and Mountain View high schools, Lakeland Junior High and John Brown Elementary went into effect at 9:06 a.m. and was lifted at 9:19 a.m. after police responded and found no one with a gun in the vicinity.

Superintendent Becky Meyer said a John Brown Elementary student reported seeing the man while walking to school.

"Units investigated, combed the area, deemed it safe and secure, and we discontinued the lockout," she said.

Meyer said she asked D.J. Duke, the school resource officer, if he believed the report was legitimate. He told her that he believed it was.

"I did not want to needlessly alarm any parents again today (after schools were locked down on Tuesday afternoon due to a social media message with a gun photo suggesting two men in a dispute meet at a Post Falls school)," Meyer said. "That's why I asked him that very question."