Char-Houston Locks Exterior Doors Over “Police Action”

The Chartiers Houston School District implemented an ‘external door lockdown’ Thursday morning due to an “external police action” in the community.  Superintendent Dr. Gary Peiffer says it lasted less than ninety-minutes and “the situation did not involve any district students or facilities”  Students were safe and continued their daily schedules in a normal fashion. Chartiers Township Police Chief James Horvath says an individual wanted on a warrant for attempted homicide out of Allegheny County was determined to be in the area and the school district was notified around 8 a.m. and asked to lock its doors out of an abundance of caution. That unidentified individual was taken into custody without incident.  Peiffer says the ‘lockdown’ was lifted just after 9:30 a.m.