Tulsa school locked down after shots fired nearby

Scene from Celia Clinton Elementary School in Tulsa, Oklahoma where there is a report of shots fired on Dec. 19, 2012. / CBS News

Updated 7:29 PM ET

TULSA, Okla. Students at a north Tulsa elementary school that was locked down for nearly two hours have been released to their parents.

Police say Celia Clinton Elementary was locked down with the children inside about 2 p.m. Tuesday when gunshots were reported near the school.

Earlier, authorities were responding to call of shots fired near the school, CBS affiliate KOTV Tulsa reported.

According to a spokesperson for the Tulsa Public Schools, the shots did not happen on the property of Celia Clinton Elementary School.

Tulsa Police Officer Leland Ashley says a group of parents were outside Celia Clinton Elementary about 2 p.m. Tuesday when they heard gunshots and saw a man in a yard just north of the school firing a weapon. The parents ran into the school and notified staff who called police.

Ashley says no students are injured and there is no indication the man was shooting at the school -- but that it wasn't clear what the man was firing at.

Ashley says officers are searching the area and nearby neighborhoods for the man who he said is about 5-feet-8- and wearing dark blue hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans.

Parents arrived at the school to pick up their children, said KOTV.

The man was still being sought late Tuesday afternoon.

The incident comes nearly one week after 26 people -- 20 of them children -- were killed in a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

[Forty-Four]

Since the shooting just happened in CT, of course this kind of thing will make the national news. It is standard procedure to lockdown schools when "things happen" around a community. I hear about it on my local news from time to time. Most of the time there is absolutely no threat to the school or the children. It is just a precautionary step that is taken.

[GOP-R--Con-Men]

Let's investigate the role republican obstruction creating dysfunctional government has played in stressing out those on the margins to commit crime. That's something republicans hope nobody ever talks about.

[GOP-R--Con-Men]

Ever notice the most rabid gun worshippers were draft dodgers or have no intention of joining the military now?

[jkannie]

Unfortunately, gunshots are all too frequent in that area of town. That part of town is ruled by multiple gangs.

[Johnt9999]

Full moon must coming up, all nuts went nuts

[RunGomez]

Is this the news from the future? The photo caption says it is from Dec. 19, 2012. Today is Dec. 18. Kudos on predicting the future CBS! :-D