Reports of a possible gunman at a Stittsville school on Thursday were likely tied to a student mistaking a construction worker’s pipe for a rifle, police said Friday.
Paul-Desmarais French catholic high school on Abbott Street East went into “safe school mode” on Thursday after police received a call just before noon about a person possibly carrying a gun in the area.
A student had told a teacher that morning that he saw what he thought was a man holding a rifle on a rooftop near the school, according to a police statement to Global News.
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Officers searched the area but found no threat.
After speaking to the student, the sole witness in the incident, police said it’s likely he saw a construction worker holding a pipe.
Officers ultimately concluded the incident was “unfounded.”
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The safety measures at Paul-Desmarais were lifted shortly afterwards.
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