Shots Fired At Eleanor Roosevelt High School

GREENBELT, Md. - Eleanor Roosevelt High School had a scare on Tuesday, following calls to Greenbelt Police that gun shots had been fired near the school.

Roosevelt was placed on lockdown as police searched a wooded area nearby and checked out cars parked at nearby apartment complexes. Students at the high school and some people who live nearby told FOX 5 they heard multiple shots, as many as 12.

Police say they believe the shots were fired into the air. Students say they felt afraid when school officials kept them closed up in the school, with no explanation about what was going on.

But students texted each other and discovered police with helicopters and dogs were looking for a man outside, who might have fired a weapon into the air.

No one was hurt. No one was arrested, and police never found a gun.

Greenbelt Police responded to two other calls about a man with a gun at the Empirian Apartments, but say they were not related to the incident at Roosevelt.