Threat prompts evacuation at McDonough Walmart; no device found

A Walmart in McDonough was evacuated Friday afternoon after a customer passed a note to a store associate threatening a bomb, police said.

Authorities emptied the store on Willow Lane shortly after noon. No device was located during a search, according to McDonough police spokesman Maj. Kyle Helgerson.

“A note was passed by a customer,” he said. “We don’t think the note was credible at this point. We took the precautions we felt were necessary based on the information we had at the time.”