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Ohio boy in custody after gun-in-school report

TOLEDO, Ohio — Police responding to reports of a student with a gun say they have taken a 14-year-old boy into custody today after isolating him inside a Toledo high school.

SWAT team officers were called and Scott High School was locked down this morning.

Police say no shots were fired, and no one has been hurt. Officers isolated the boy in a hallway. Police say they saw what appeared to be the handle of a handgun.

Students were evacuated, and the boy is not believed to have threatened anyone.

Toledo police posted on Twitter that the boy was in custody late this morning.

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