College in upstate NY lifts lockdown after gunman is contained to house off campus

NY college lifts lockdown as gunman is cornered

BROCKPORT, N.Y. — A college lockdown in upstate New York has been lifted now that police say a gunman near the campus has been contained to a house.

A notice on the College at Brockport’s Web site said police reported an “active shooter” just before 1:30 p.m. on a road at the western campus border.

College spokesman Nick Mascari says the school lifted the lockdown within an hour. But he says it is an “ongoing situation.”

Police and the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department didn’t return calls. No other details were available Friday afternoon.

The regular semester hasn’t started yet at the school outside Rochester. But Mascari says there might be several hundred staffers and some faculty members on campus.