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Gunman triggers lockdown at Mount Pleasant schools
Three Mount Pleasant schools with nearly 1900 students were locked down as police rushed to Southampton Apartments after a report of a gunman. A man in a business suit went into an apartment and killed himself with a shotgun. The gunman, not immediately named, lived in Mount Pleasant but not at the complex. The incident began around 10 a.m. when a resident reported seeing a man with a gun. police used a robot to search the second floor and found the man dead shortly after 2 p.m. Students stayed in classes but could not leave or recess outside. The nearest school lay about 300 yards away.
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