Man With Pellet Gun Near Murray Elementary Prompts Brief Lock Down

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Murray Independent School District officials briefly locked down the city’s elementary school Tuesday after a parent volunteer noticed a man walking near the school with a gun.  MPD's new schools new resource officer alerted officers to detain the man. Police  say the man was in fact exterminating squirrels with a pellet gun.  Murray Police Spokesman Dave Howe says students were never in danger.