Louisville High School on Lockdown Due to Alleged Gunman

(AP/WHAS11) -- Parents are picking up students at a Louisville school that was locked down after a student told officials she thought she saw someone with a gun on campus.

Fern Creek Traditional High School was locked down about 8 a.m. EST on Wednesday.

Jefferson County Public Schools director Maurice Risner says the building has been secured and no gun was found.

Parents were allowed to begin picking up students shortly after noon.

A nearby elementary school also placed on lockdown as a precaution. Fern Creek elementary school students remained on busses in the Kroger parking lot on Bardstown Road. Those students who were not picked up there were then taken to Farmer elementary school.

The lockdown comes after a spate of gun attacks in U.S. schools and universities. The most recent happened last week when a gunman killed five people before committing suicide at Northern Illinois University. Earlier this month, a woman shot two fellow students to death before committing suicide at a Louisiana technical college and a 17-year-old is accused of shooting and critically wounding a fellow student in Memphis, Tenn., during a high school gym class.

Louisville police spokesman Phil Russell says officers are searching Fern Creek Traditional High School and interviewing potential witnesses.
He says no gun has been found.
Jefferson County public schools spokeswoman Lauren Roberts says a student thought she saw a young man with a weapon talking to two others in the school cafeteria.
School officials say students are being kept in their classrooms while the building is searched.