Cops sweep campus after shots fired at midstate tech college

Central Georgia Technical College’s Macon campus was on lockdown for a time Monday morning after shots were fired outside a building there.

An emergency alert sent to students shortly after 11:40 a.m. stated that the campus on Eisenhower Parkway was on lockdown.

Bibb County sheriff’s Lt. Randy Gonzalez said about three shots were fired after an argument in the college’s cafeteria spilled outside Building I, near the parking lot adjacent to Building H.

Three men wearing blue jeans, white T-shirts and red sweatbands, fled in a black Ford Crown Victoria.

A black or blue Nissan Altima also was seen leaving at the same time with three men inside, Gonzalez said.

It was not clear if the Altima was connected to the shooting.

“Those two vehicles left the area very quickly,” Gonzalez said.

No one was injured, and the lockdown was lifted after a sweep of the campus.

One student reported being locked in her classroom with the lights off.

She wrote on The Telegraph’s Facebook page that “some shots sounded from the back of campus” but that “most assumed it was just something else.”

This story was originally published September 19, 2016 at 12:06 PM with the headline "Cops sweep campus after shots fired at midstate tech college."