ELYRIA — Elyria police are responding to a shooting on Eighth Street, and Elyria High School was briefly placed on exterior lockdown after initial reports that the shooter had fled.
Listen to scanner audio from the police call:
Police responded to the shooting about 12:15 p.m. at 215 Eighth Street. A man told a police dispatcher a masked gunman wearing all black entered his home, shot him and then fled on foot in an unknown direction.
Shortly afterward Elyria police reported stopping a man that matched that description. It was not immediately clear if it was the same man.
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Elyria High was placed on exterior lockdown as a precaution, according to schools spokeswoman Amy Higgins. She said exterior lockdown means school was still in session but no one was coming or going from the building. The lockdown lasted about a half hour and was over by 1:15 p.m.
At the Eighth Street scene, one victim, an adult male, was removed from the home on a stretcher and taken to the hospital by ambulance. His condition was not immediately available.
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