North Carolina College Lifts Lockdown; Police Search for Felon Wearing Body Armor

North Carolina College Lifts Lockdown; Police Search for Felon Wearing Body Armor
The Balsam Center Burrell Building at Southwestern Community College–Jackson Campus in Sylva, N.C., in June 2019. Google Maps/Screenshot via The Epoch Times
Gary Bai
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A college in North Carolina went into “immediate lockdown” following an active shooter warning and lifted the lockdown hours later on Tuesday.

In a security notice labeled as “extreme,” the Southwestern Community College in North Carolina had instructed its students and faculty at the Jackson Campus to go into an immediate lockdown Tuesday at 10:24 a.m. due to an “active shooter situation” near the campus.