Wake Technical Community College Ends Lockdown After Report Of Armed Man

RALEIGH, N.C. — Authorities have charged a man with threatening a woman after a sprawling community college south of Raleigh was locked down.

County sheriff's spokeswoman Phyllis Stephens says 27-year-old Franklin Delano Rawls Jr. was charged Tuesday with communicating threats, a misdemeanor.

Stephens says threats were made against a student at Wake Technical Community College. A woman told authorities she was afraid Rawls would come to campus, but it's not clear if he was ever at the school Tuesday. The lock down was lifted after deputies deemed the campus was safe.

Rawls was being held on $500 bond. It couldn't be immediately determined if he has a lawyer.

Comments

[clb45para]

08:30 PM on 01/24/2012

So they locked down the campus because somewhere, somebody "threatened" a student, but they don't know if he ever came to the school, and they don't know if he had a gun. Some where someone in N.C. has a gun. Quick, shut down all the schools, the world is ending. Oh no, look, in that old history book, a picture of a soldier with a gun. Horror, shut all the doors. Talk about paranoia!

[gwbsucs1]

03:03 PM on 01/24/2012

all that because a man walked thru with both arms - i can't tell you how unimaginable this is

[petpetdonna]

02:33 PM on 01/24/2012

The NRA loves this publicity.

[Bob McEntyre]

02:02 PM on 01/24/2012

Another Earnest.T Bass with a gun on the loose in the South?Are we suppose to be shocked?

[Gommie]

02:59 PM on 01/24/2012

There are Earnest T. Bass's everywhere, not just in the South!!

[sungal1205]

05:15 PM on 01/24/2012

he probably came down from the north.