Carroll University lockdown lifted, police confiscate non-lethal air gun from suspect

(CBS/WDJT/AP) WAUKESHA, Wis. - Waukesha police say they confiscated an air gun from a man they arrested following a lockdown Tuesday morning at Carroll University in southeastern Wisconsin.

The lockdown has been lifted.

Police Capt. Ron Oremus says investigators learned the man's identity and contacted him at his nearby apartment where he was arrested. Oremus says a non-lethal air gun was confiscated from the man's residence.

Oremus says that in today's climate police have to take reports like today's seriously. He says police are looking into whether the man did anything illegal, given the gun was non-lethal.

Carroll University sent a text alert to students Tuesday morning after the public safety office received a report of a man with a gun. Several public schools near the university had also been placed on lockdown by the Waukesha School District, CBS affiliate WDJT reports.

University public relations director Claire Beglinger told WITI-TV that two students called public safety officers to report a man with a "long gun" near the tennis courts on the northwest corner of the campus in Waukesha.

Carroll has about 3,500 students and is located about 30 miles west of Milwaukee.

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