The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports on the Desert Pines lockdown in their article "Handgun sighting triggers Desert Pines lockdown."
By ANTONIO PLANAS and DAVID KIHARA
REVIEW-JOURNAL
With images of the massacre at Virginia Tech fresh in their minds, students and parents at Desert Pines High School were sent into a panic on Tuesday after an 18-year-old man flashed a handgun on campus.
Even though no one was hurt, many assumed the worst when the school, at 3800 Harris Ave., near Pecos Road and Washington Avenue, was placed on lockdown.
"You watch TV and see what happened in Virginia and think, 'That's over there.' Well, it's here too," said Carrie Luna, who was waiting at the school to pick up her ninth-grade son, Obie.
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