Brown Middle School locked down as police tracked suspects
Brown Middle School in southwest Atlanta was put on lockdown shortly before classes were dismissed Monday because two burglary suspects were in the area, a school district spokesman said.
Dismissal from the school was delayed by about a half hour until Atlanta police arrested the suspects, said Atlanta Public Schools spokesman Stephen Alford.
Brown Middle School’s students weren’t able to leave school for the day until the lockdown was lifted, Alford said.
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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.
