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Domestic incident leads to Columbus schools on lockdown, police say
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Local schools in north side of Columbus were on a brief lockdown Monday after a domestic incident.
Columbus police say they responded to a domestic incident in which a man made threats toward his family and an unidentified school.
“The male subject has a history of mental illness and is known to frequent the Flat Rock Park area,” police said in a social media post.
As a precaution, schools in the area were placed on a brief lockdown. Officers located the man and transported him to a treatment facility.
No one was injured during this incident.
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