Lockdown Lifted In Norwin School District, Students Dismissed

IRWIN (KDKA) -- A school district in Westmoreland County was placed on lockdown Friday afternoon.

The Norwin School District sent a letter to families saying all schools were placed on a modified lockdown procedure due to "criminal activity in the community that police are investigating."

Because of the lockdown, dismissal was being delayed for all schools.

The school district said around 3:30 p.m. that the North Huntingdon Township Police Department gave the school district the all-clear to dismiss students.

All after-school activities are canceled for the evening.

According to emergency dispatchers, police and firefighters were sent to the 500 block of Greene Street in Irwin for a house fire.

The home belonged to a woman who had allegedly been kidnapped and threatened by her ex-boyfriend John O'Leary. It is believed O'Leary was the one who set the home on fire, which is why the school district was locked down.

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