Many residents in Falls Township’s Levittown section received a shelter-in-place message on their phones late Wednesday night.
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LevittownNow.com readers reported that a text came through just past 11:40 p.m.
“Falls Township has issued a shelter-in-place order due to police activity. Lock all doors and move to a central and secure location away from windows,” the message read.
A follow-up message was issued around 1 a.m. Thursday that stated the shelter-in-place order was lifted.
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Police said there was an incident in the neighborhood and vowed to release more information.
Law enforcement sources told this news organization the incident was related to a dispatched domestic incident on Village Lane. A gun was reported to have been used.
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Officers from Falls Township swarmed the Vermillion Hills neighborhood to search for the male suspect, the sources said.
Neighbors said they spotted a number of police vehicles and officers with weapons out as they searched Vermillion Hills.
As of 8 a.m., it did not appear that any charges had been filed related to the incident.
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