An elementary school in Sacramento was placed on a precautionary lockdown Monday as deputies investigated a report of a man with a gun in front of a nearby home.
The incident began to unfold about 2:20 p.m. when a man was reportedly seen with a gun in a small shopping center in the 8700 block of La Riviera Drive, just east of Watt Avenue, according to archived radio traffic reviewed by The Sacramento Bee.
Witnesses told dispatchers the man with the gun was then seen leaving in a vehicle out of the shopping center parking and heading east on La Riviera. Deputies responded to the area to search for the suspect…