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Lockdown is lifted at Long Beach middle school

By Kate Mather
 and Ruben Vives

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A lockdown was lifted Monday at a Long Beach middle school after a report of a man with a gun on or around campus, school officials said.

Bancroft Middle School at 5301 Centralia St. was locked down about 11:30 a.m., according to a bulletin posted on the school’s website.

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‘We followed our safety procedures, and with the help of police and school safety, we conducted a thorough search of the campus, but have found no such unauthorized person on campus,’ the alert said.

The campus lifted the lockdown shortly before 2 p.m. as police searched the neighborhood. No arrests were reported.

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— Kate Mather and Ruben Vives

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Kate Mather

Kate Mather covered crime, policing and breaking news across Southern California before leaving The Times in 2018 to attend law school. A native of Lawrence, Kan., she studied journalism at USC before first joining The Times in 2011. Mather was part of the team of reporters that received a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, as well as the team that was a Pulitzer finalist for its reporting on a deadly 2014 rampage in Isla Vista, Calif.

Ruben Vives

Ruben Vives is a general assignment reporter for the Los Angeles Times. A native of Guatemala, he got his start in journalism by writing for The Times’ Homicide Report in 2007. He helped uncover the financial corruption in the city of Bell that led to criminal charges against eight city officials. The 2010 investigative series won the Pulitzer Prize for public service and other prestigious awards.

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