Virginia Palmer Elementary School on Code Yellow Lockdown

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Kellene Stockwell

Channel 2 News

Virginia Palmer Elementary School in Sun Valley was put on a temporary code yellow lockdown Friday afternoon.

Washoe County deputies and school police searched the area on the report of suspicious suspects who may have had rifles.

No other information was immediately released, but the school was eventually reopened and parents picked up their children without incident.

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