East Ascension High placed on lockdown after gun scare on campus

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - East Ascension High School in Gonzales was placed on lockdown late Friday morning after police activity on campus. Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre told parents on the scene that there was a report of a student on campus with a gun. However, they could not locate the student and could not verify that the gun was ever on campus. School officials viewed security camera footage and saw where the student had left campus. Webre says law enforcement authorities later found the male student off campus...