Authorities say students at a Santa Clarita elementary school are safe after a man armed with a machete reportedly barricaded himself in a nearby home.
Around 2:30 p.m., Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of assault with a deadly weapon on Plumwood Avenue near Canyon Springs Community Elementary School, said Deputy Kabrina Borbon of the sheriff’s station. of Santa Clarita Valley.
The incident led to the closure of the elementary school.
School resource officers assisted authorities in a “very successful evacuation of the campus” and students were reunited with their parents, said Robert Jensen, sheriff’s station spokesman.
“The school did a great job of allowing students to exit through the west door away from the (incident area), and it was a really smooth partnership,” Jensen said.
The sheriff’s Office of Special Enforcement assisted at the home where the man was barricaded and he was taken into custody without incident.