
{"id":4602,"date":"2009-01-15T08:13:21","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T16:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=4602"},"modified":"2009-01-15T08:13:21","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T16:13:21","slug":"culbreth-locked-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/01\/15\/culbreth-locked-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Culbreth locked down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapel Hill \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 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. <\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nGunter said Simpson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s girlfriend went into the school to warn staff about the gun and police responded a short time later, about 10 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There was a threat that was communicated to her,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Gunter said. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The threat never entered the building,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Knott said. <\/p>\n<p>Parents were notified of the incident after the lockdown was lifted. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapel Hill \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4603,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602\/revisions\/4603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}