North Las Vegas police responded Thursday morning to the area near Legacy High School after an active law enforcement incident involving a suspect believed to be armed. Legacy High School and Northeast Career and Technical Academy were briefly placed on lockdown out of an abundance of caution.

Both campuses sit off Dorrell and Commerce, and by 12:30 p.m. the lockdowns had been lifted, according to a report from Channel 13. Students were expected to be dismissed at their normal times, though police asked that release times be staggered because the investigation was still continuing in the area.

The situation had been contained by early afternoon, and police said there was no known ongoing threat to the public. That detail mattered for families watching the schools and for nearby campuses such as Ruby Duncan Elementary School and Don E. Hayden Elementary School, which were in the area but were not confirmed as part of the lockdown.

The precautions reflected the reality of a fast-moving police search near a school zone: officers were working to safely contain and locate a person they believed could be armed, while the schools waited inside. By the time the lockdowns came off, the immediate danger had passed, but the response was still shaping how students would leave and how the surrounding neighborhood would move through the rest of the day.