Ridgefield, Conn., Schools Locked Down on Report of Man With Rifle

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Schools in Ridgefield, Connecticut, just 20 miles from Friday’s Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, were on lockdown this morning after a report of a man with a rifle. Ridgefield Press reports:

Police from more than a half dozen towns have converged on Branchville after a woman called Wilton Police, reporting she saw a man carrying what looked like a rifle on Portland Avenue, Georgetown, just south of the Branchville Station.

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Police on alert in Ridgefield, Connecticut. (NewsTimes.com photo)