Perry High School was on lockdown while around 100 local and state officers searched for a possible armed person nearby Friday afternoon, according to the Houston County Sheriff’s Office.

But the report of a possible armed subject might’ve been a swatting call, Sheriff Matt Moulton told The Telegraph around 5 p.m.

“We’ve not been able to make contact with anybody that resembles what the threat was about,” Moulton said. “So it’s possible that it was a hoax called into the school.”

It is illegal to impart or convey false information regarding threats in the United States.

“It is a crime,” Moulton said. “We are now trying to identify the source of the call.”

The sheriff’s office was notified of a “subject possibly armed with a gun in the area of the school” around 2:40 p.m., Moulton tol

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