Chatsworth High School locked down as police search for murder suspect [Updated]

A Los Angeles high school was placed on lockdown late Wednesday morning as police searched the area for a murder suspect.

[Updated at 1:40 p.m.: Police said they have a suspect in custody, but no further details were available.]

Around 11:30 a.m., officers from the Los Angeles School Police Department chased the suspect in a foot pursuit that began near the Chatsworth High campus, said Officer Christopher No of the Los Angeles Police Department.

LAPD officers responded to a radio call for backup, setting up a large perimeter in an attempt to trap the suspect, No said. When a school is locked down, classroom doors are locked and students and teachers are not allowed to leave until police permit movement.

Police did not immediately release the identity of the man. It was not known if he is affiliated with the school or if he was armed.

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Comments

[BJ]

Ain't no party like a C-House party. Not so surprising- I remember the Lockdown of 92(complete with lapd teargassing), Lockdown of 94(when gabe was stabbed in front of the sign built by the class of 85), and that other lockdown in either late 94 or early 95 that was the result of another murder suspect manhunt. Who'd have thunk chatsworth was so... Whats the word I'm looking for?

[kim]

i was in school here we couldnt go out or nothing,they had to walk us to the bathroom and give us our lunch in the class. i coulnt stand being there for 3 hours on lockdown,but it was alright!!

[Ted]

Yet another reason to send your child to private school if you have to raise kids in this toilet of a city in the first place.

[JXS]

@ Ted... Whats does a murder suspect on the loose have anything to do with sending a kid to private school? Go and bark up another tree!

[JosefineAnne Gobreville]

One of my three dogs, my Jindo, Roxanne was in the back yard barking at something in the side yard. I went to investigate because I didn't want her trapping a squirrel or possum and hurting it. As I looked toward the stone wall separating my house from the front sidewalk hands appeared and suddenly this young man leaped over the wall. I was startled but not frightened as he like very young clean cut. I thought perhaps he was running from someone who was trying to hurt him. He said to me "I won't hurt you", looking very frightened himself. My other two dogs were barking up a storm because they always want to get in on the action. As I went to let them out I turned my back and he was gone. I went out front to see if I could determine what was transpiring, A school police officer was there and asked me if I had seen anyone and I told him I thought the young man had leaped into another yard. As we were talking my 3 dogs were at the side door of the garage, barking. The office said, "he's in there". At that point the young man poked his head out. At that point I surmise he went into the house and ran through to the back doors. He never posed any danger to me as my dogs would have attacked him. This transpired about 11:00 am and he apparently spent the next 2 hrs scaling walls until he was run down on the front lawn of a house on Cozycroft at Merridy. Later on Fox news as I watched my interview with the reporters they showed his two wheeler being loaded into a police car trunk. My first thought was, " What attempted murderer uses a bike for transportation" ? I will say that I was tremendously impressed with the show of force of the law. I never saw a weapon on this boy and never felt afraid, he was wearing a white tee and black chinos and there had been no evidence that he was in possession of any weapon.