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Culbreth locked down

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Staff

Chapel Hill — Culbreth Middle School was locked down for about 30 minutes Tuesday morning after a man was seen in a car in the parking lot with a gun.

Police arrested Ronald Marshall Simpson Jr., 36, of 751 Trinity Court, Apt. A-8, Chapel Hill on the scene. According to Lt. Kevin Gunter of the Chapel Hill Police Department, police found Simpson in his car with a 9mm pistol; he did not resist arrest.

Gunter said Simpson’s girlfriend went into the school to warn staff about the gun and police responded a short time later, about 10 a.m.

“There was a threat that was communicated to her,” Gunter said.

According to Stephanie Knott, assistant superintendent for community relations for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, a school is locked down anytime there is a report of a weapon siting anywhere in the vicinity of the school. No students were in the parking lot at the time of the incident and none saw the gun, she added.

“The threat never entered the building,” Knott said.

Parents were notified of the incident after the lockdown was lifted.

Simpson was charged with felony possession of a firearm on school property and communicating a threat. He is being held in Orange County Jail on $20,000 bond.

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