SWAT team seals off neighborhood near school in southeast Las Vegas

A Las Vegas constabulary SWAT portion responded to a vicinity adjacent a mediate schoolhouse successful southeast Las Vegas aboriginal Tuesday and closed respective streets successful the area.

It was not instantly wide what prompted the portion to respond to Chinchilla Avenue adjacent Tropicana Avenue and Sandhill Road conscionable aft 7 a.m. Police had closed disconnected Sandhill successful some directions conscionable southbound of Harmon Avenue, and were rerouting postulation astir the area. Several vicinity streets successful the contiguous country were besides closed.

The Woodbury Middle School is instantly adjacent to the scene. It was not instantly known if the schoolhouse had ordered a lockdown.

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