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Police Situation Causes Schools To Lockdown

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Tom Sofield
Police at the scene. Credit: Wayne Rogers
Police on the street where the incident happened. The house pictured in the background is not where the suicidal subject was located.
Credit: Wayne Rogers

A man in Levittown who threatened to commit suicide caused two schools to go into a self-imposed lockdown on Monday.

According to parents and a Pennsbury School District official, Penn Valley and Manor elementary schools went into a short lockdown Monday morning due to police activity. Falls Township police said the lockdowns were not ordered by officers.

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Patrol units were called to Nightingale Lane after a man threatened to commit suicide, police said.

Officers were able to talk the man out after a short time and took him to the hospital, police said.

No injuries were reported.

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Tom Sofield

Tom Sofield

Tom Sofield has covered news in Bucks County for 16 years for both newspaper and online publications. Tom’s reporting has appeared locally, nationally, and internationally across several mediums. He is proud to report on news in the county where he lives and to have created a reliable publication that the community deserves.