A man is being questioned by police Tuesday morning after officials with Brookhaven College say an emergency caller reported someone threatening to shoot students in the school parking lot.
After the call was received, Brookhaven College, which is part of the Dallas County Community College District, was placed under a brief lock down at the request of the Farmers Branch Police Department.
In a tweet from the Brookhaven College Twitter account, officials said "ALERT: Lock down on campus. All outside doors are locked. No entry or exit into the building. If not at campus stay away."
Less than 10 minutes later, the school tweeted that the lock down had ended. No injuries were reported among the 12,400 or so students enrolled at the college.
Brookhaven spokeswoman Meredith Danfort said campus police took a man into custody and after an interview determined he was the one making threats. Custody of the man, whose identity has not yet been revealed, is being turned over to the Farmers Branch police.
Danfort added that the man, who is not enrolled at Brookhaven or in the DCCD, and was not carrying a weapon.
The lock down comes a day after a Somali-born student, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, used a car and knife to injure 11 people on the campus of Ohio State University. Artan plowed his car into a group of pedestrians on campus shortly before 10 a.m. Monday, and then got out and began stabbing people with a butcher knife before he was shot to death by a campus police officer, authorities said.
