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HISD school put on lockdown after SWAT situation
01:47 PM CST on Wednesday, January 14, 2009
HOUSTON -- A northeast Houston middle school was put on lockdown for a few hours Wednesday afternoon as police waited for a suspected robber to give up.
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A northeast Houston middle school is on lockdown as police wait for a suspected robber to give up. SWAT is on the scene, say police.
Houston Independent School District officials said they took the action at Fleming Middle School only as a precaution.
The ordeal began at 10 a.m. after police tried to serve a warrant at a home near Wipprecht at Collingsworth.
Reports from the scene indicated that the man confronted police and refused to give up. He and a woman then retreated into a home, police said.
When SWAT officers entered the home, they found no one there.
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