UPDATE: Police Release Info on Three Charged in Tech School Lockdown

The township campus of the Camden County Technical Schools system was placed on lockdown Monday morning after school officials reported a student was in possession of a handgun.

Gloucester Township Police recovered what was described as an imitiation firearm during a search of the Berlin-Cross Keys Road vo-tech school.

Three students—a 16-year-old Lindenwold boy and two Camden boys, 16 and 17—have been charged with the following offenses: possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes, unlawful possession of a weapon, false public alarm, possession of drug paraphernalia and obstruction of justice.

The school resumed a normal schedule following the lockdown, which consisted of students being secured in classrooms as police searched the building for the weapon.

Police were called to the school at 10:12 a.m., according to a press release issued by Lt. Robert Stavola this evening.

The incident came on the same day as a deadly shooting at an Ohio high school.