09/09/2014
Lockdown
Today was an exciting day at work!
Around 9:00 a.m. a colleague noticed some police action going on across the street. Within 15 minutes multiple police cars had blocked off Maumee Blvd. and armed men were swarming out around an old house. Some snipers had taken cover behind a transformer right outside our office window.
Indiana Tech issued a campus lockdown; everybody was ordered to stay inside whatever building they were in, or close to.
Three men came out of the house after another 15 minutes, their hands up in the air, and had to lie face down on their stomachs in the grass - with policemen standing over them pointing assault rifles at their heads.
Getting the remaining two suspects out took stronger measures. An armored vehicle arrived at the scene and fired a flash-bomb at the house they were hiding in. That must have scared the guys sufficiently; they came out and were apprehended too.
The incident was over about an hour after it began, we were given the
all-clear, and students were eager to give interviews and share their photos right away.
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