sheriff's deputy with a knife, if the suspect's name sounds familiar he was in the news before. they identified the attacker as curtis smith of coatesville. a man that made national headlines earlier this year. >> he appears to be the same individual that jumped the white house fence in march of this year. >> that smith allegedly barged into the courthouse at noon today wielding a knife. >> he said, i'm going get you i'm going to get you and i heard pop pop pop and it was the sheriff shooting him. >> but before he was shot another deputy received knife wounds to his arm and chest. >> and the courthouse was put on lockdown because of all of this, we spoke to relieved people that were allowed to leave the building a short time later. >> i'm happy to finally make it

out. >> i lot of people knew i was here today and they were concerned and trying to text me, it's scary that this happened right here in westchester. >> reporter: back out live on the scene, people were asking why was smith free after jumping the white house fence, he was arrested for unlawful entry but he reached an agreement with the court that he would not be prosecuted if he stayed out of trouble. authorities say at this point they have no idea what his motive may have been. walter perez, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >> "action news" when to curtis smith's neighborhood where people on the street said the news of what happened traveled fast, they called smith a hard worker and family man and neighbor cornelius said he could

not imagine what would cause smith to hurt anyone. >> he was good to his boy and he was a christian guy, a strong willed guy, a good guy. >> neighbors tell us that smith leaves behind a wife and two sons. developing right now, two people were shot outside of an apartment in delaware koipt, chopper 6 hd was over the scene in glenolden, this is across the street from eaton aerospace, one victim was drifb from the business to get away from the scene. dann cuellar is working to get information right now, he'll have a live report coming up at 4:30. a terrible smell led police to three decomposing bodies in the strawberry mansion section of philadelphia today, they were in a garage owned by a funeral home in the area. chad pradelli was first to report this on "action news" at noon, he joins us live at the

central detectives bureau with the latest. >> reporter: it's called the powell funeral home and is now under investigation for abusing corpses, just a few minutes ago i got off the phone with the state board of funeral directors and that this funeral home shouldn't have been doing any work because their license expired last year. >> corey caring ton walked by the garage at 2626 haggard and something didn't smell right so he when inside. >> we walked past and when inside and saw a body inside and called 911. >> they found two additional decomposed bodies.

the funeral home around the corper, sources and city records report that the funeral home is owned by daly. >> would you like your loved ones to be stored like that. >> you said this was not that big a deal, can you say why. >> you can see open windows in the open doors and head stones in the lot next doors. >> a source tells investigators she moved the body yeses from the funeral home because of the smell and that she saw a pickup truck drop off the bodies at the garage on saturday. >> nobody should be stored like that, nobody. >> janet powell daly is not charged with a crime and she has a license to be a funeral director but her funeral home does not have a license and this investigation is on going i'm

live in center city, chad pradelli, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. a gloucester county roller rink owner is behind bars after allegedly having inappropriate can't with children. 46-year-old john carlo of franklin township, turned himself in yesterday. he owns the franklin skating center and according to police he showed porn to a child on a laptop inside of the skating facility last month. is he held on $200,000 bail and anyone with more information is asked to call the gloucester prosecutors office. police are trying to track down a man who used pepper spray to rob two 7-eleven stores, the suspect is seen on surveillance video asking for three packs of cigarettes and then spraying the clerk with pepper spray, and

then in the spring garden section, he was wearing the same clothes in both situations. it looks like we were in for a rally on wall street, after its worst day in four years, but as we look at the closing numbers, things really fell apart in the last hour or so. the market was up 300 points at times today but the dow jones closing dropping 205 points, the nasdaq down 20 and the s&p 500 down 25 points, this with more losses on chinese stocks, they cut interest rates and added money to the amount of money that banks are required to keep on hand. now they are watching to see if the fed here is raising interest rates by the end of year. red arrows across the board. >> thank you alicia. time for a check of the accuweather forecast. >> lets go outside to meteorologist, adam joseph, it

feels nice out there. these numbers are dropping which is a good thing, if you want a fall feeling around here and the humidity we have wiped it away, take a look at the numbers, upper 70s to low 80s north and west of philadelphia, with full sunshine and 85 in wilmington and low 80s at the shore. and although philadelphia is 88 degrees and trenton 87, the numbers don't feel that hot because of the humidity that has really dropped off, and it's in the mid-50s from allentown to philadelphia, feeling humid along the shore, 61 in cape may and 75 tropical feeling there in beach haven and long beach island, they were the last to clear out and now the wedge of really dry air along i-95 and then as you head to the west, pittsburgh and buffalo, the clouds build again with low pressure over the great lakes, temperatures drop out of the 80s

to mid to low 70s by 10:00 with a clear sky. when i come back we'll chat about the comfortable air sticking around and get used to a lot of sunshine in the seven-day forecast. >> thank you adam. this is the scene in philadelphia's kensington section today, a small sinkhole started small but ballooned in size overnight and it is causing major headaches for the neighborhood. here is a look at it for today, just incredible there, over at tulip and huntington streets, it started with a 12 inch water main break but soon the concrete started to give way and the hole just got bigger and bigger. residents we spoke to say they thought it wasn't a big deal, at least at first. >> in the middle of the day it was the size a tennis ball hole and water was shooting out and my family when down for a nap and when we woke up the whole street was caved in, it was

crazy. >> the crews stayed on the scene throughout the night and are working on the site all day as well. fortunately no disruptions to water or gas service but a big cleanup there. one month from tomorrow pope francis will celebrate mass at the basilica of saints peter and paul and we are getting a look at what the pope and the priests will be wearing, the white clothing will be worn on saturday when he is at the basilica, the green clothing will be worn for sunday mass. we have more on 6abc.com/pope including a link to the papal visit play book and jim gardner's weekly series of reports from argentina, and mosh on our areas preparations for the pontiff's visit snoop lets go now to matt pellman in the traffic center. >> lets prepare for the ride

home and talk about jams. not smooth sailing, here along 95 it's a slow go as it is most afternoons on the northbound side from the vine street expressway from allegheny and the work zone at cotman avenue, just to make things trickier, on the northbound side past bridge street there is a crash off to the side now but attracting attention and a crash on the roosevelt boulevard, on the southbound lanes at somerdale, we have the sinkhole in kensington blocking off tulip street and cedar street is a possible alternate. a crash in upper moreland closing county line road and byberry road is a possible alternate. and downed wires in depford county near 544 with the slow speeds forming at 295, and once

again just like yesterday and the weekend, septa west trenton regional rail line is not running from west trenton. they are trying to upgrade the signal system there. lets grab the ipad and do the commuter report on this tuesday afternoon, our friends are talking about the jams at the delaware memorial bridge, more construction blocking the right lane in both directions. we'll check it again in the next half hour. >> we need some peanut butter for all that jam. >> now i'm hungry. >> what voters think of kathleen kane now that she is heading to trial. today we are learning new details about the deadly crash that followed. plus, huge wild fires that continue to burn out west, crews from our area are continuing to

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vice president joe biden has president obama's blessing to enter the race for the white house, but it's unclear if he will. he lunch at the white house yesterday and a senior democrat told cnn that the president gave him the green light if he wanted to run. the vice president's office continues to down play the rumors as speculation. meantime jeb bush is taking on donald trump's immigration plan, trump visited the border yesterday to discuss his plans. he blasted trump's plan and says it strips them of their civil liberties. attorney general kathleen kane according to a new poll

should resign. kane is heading to trial on charges she leaked confidential grand jury information and then lied about it under only. kane has said she plans to run for re-election but 34% say they disapprove and only 20% approved. cane is due back in court in october. the ntsb is investigating a deadly plane crash in new york and the agency says that it all happened that the air traffic controller told him to land on a runway that has been closed since 1990, patrick milo reported a problem with his plane nine days ago and the controller gave him several options including landing on a nearby runway but that airport closed 25 years ago.

he could not see the airport. and he ended up dying in the crash. >> you don't know what was happening in the cockpit, no finger pointing or blame, the passenger will be edge to tell what he saw. >> the pilot rejected the other options because he didn't think he could make it. >> alicia thank you. more local firefighters are heading out west to help battle firefighters, the action cam was there as 20 members of the fire service got geared up to go at the elizabeth environmental center, they will go to california for two weeks and others have been doing battle in montana and three local truck crews are fighting wild fires in washington state. >> doing wild fires is a little bit different but very rewarding and you can take your talents

you learn here in new jersey and apply them in other states. >> this crew just leaving is a mix is of seasoned firefighters and some new ones, the crew boss says they will help out wherever needed. of all the companies traded on the s&p 500, three american companies have the biggest pay gaps between their ceo's and employees, discovery communications, chipotle and cvs pay their ceo 1,000 times more than their workers, that gives them a wider gap than anyone else on the s&p, now companies will be required to report. and they found that ceo of s&p companies make four and a half times more than the average worker, only cvs responded by the way, saying that its ceo pay is in line with the rest of the

industry. a former marine found himself without a home or a helping hand after returning from afghanistan and now he is turning that bad experience in something really good, fred is helping the homeless by raising money for apartment starter kits, they have everything you need like towels and sponges and aluminum foil. he is raising money to buy 100 of the starter kids and one local business game him a head start. great clips, the haircutting company donated. it's part of the campaign to give back to others. >> that is pretty nice. time to get a check of a nice accuweather forecast on a tuesday afternoon. >> it's gorgeous out there, lets go to adam joseph. >> sunshine is back and the humidity is dropping and the shore is the last location to rid themselves of the clouds and showers but even there the humidity is up a little bit but

that is dropping this evening and tonight, we are looking live now at cape may's sky 6, the southerly wind off the tip of cape may, warm and less humid and to the north and west, lancaster and allentown 81 degrees, a drop from yesterday afternoon, the cold front is off the coast the last area of showers and showers that skirted the coastline but we are edged in the dry air, to the west an upper level low, a lot of cold air aloft, and showers to the north and west of pittsburgh, that will stay there and as the clouds try to bump their way over the mountains in pennsylvania, it rips them apart and we won't see much in the way of clouds, clear skies and comfortable and most of the suburbs, dropping back into the 50s and 65 philadelphia and still warm along the shore, because the ocean is still 78 degrees, bumping up the number for cape may and atlantic city.

70 at 9:00, a very crisp start to your wednesday morning rush, as we get into the afternoon tomorrow, upper 70s, that is it for highs, 79 in wilmington and low 80s for millville, with a land breeze tomorrow we'll be around 80 at the shore. >> tropical storm erica, was named last night, winds are 45 miles per hour sustained, moving west at 20, just to the east of the leeward islands and guadalupe. if we look at the spaghetti plot, it has good agreement, you don't see a big spread from the models heading to the north of guadeloupe, this is thursday at 8:30 and then north of the dominican republic and turks and caicos by the weekend here, it could be a hurricane by the time it hits the bahamas, your four day at 4:00, it's comfortable around here, sunny and nice

wednesday and 84 degrees and a couple of clouds in the afternoon and mimic that forecast thursday, friday, into saturday, low 80s, thursday and friday and then the temperatures go up with saturday sunshine of 88 and turns humid over the weekend and as we head into september we are tracking even more heat and humidity, not going downward, we'll show you that in the seven day. >> we enjoyed today, thank you adam. >> some children in camden spent part of their day working out with the philadelphia 76erses, the youngsters received tips on playing better on the cord but learned hip hop dance moves from the sixer's dance team but the best part of the day each child got sneakers and a reversible jersey compliment of the sixers and health care that sponsored the event.

>> up next new jersey strikes out in its push to make sports betting legal, what happened today in court and why the bathsle may not be over yet. and an important item on your back to school shopping list, consumer reports puts backpacks to the test. a local teacher found a creative way to fund her fourth grade classroom, she used social media to stock up for the school year.

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islander, it lost power near salem, new jersey, and got stuck in shallow water, there were 12 people on board when it got stuck and the coast guard waited for high tide, there was no pollution and no one was hurt. still ahead on "action news" at 12:30, if are you still in the market for back to school backpacks, stiblg around we are helping you gear up, these guys may be the most casual criminals you have ever seen, what police did with that ladder in broad daylight. and a medical marvel coming up how a remarkable transplant lirnged a family.

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the question quietly echoing in schools this year. >> should i work another year or just ask people for help. >> ask for help is what that teacher did with incredible results. coming up why she had to crowd fund her classroom in the first place and how that is helping other educators. and humorous or hurtful, they say this halloween kit will only add fuel to the fire, we'll get into the debate over the

call me kate costume. a deadly shooting inside of a justice center, a man infamous for jumping the fence of the white house back in march, that man curtis smith of coatesville slashed a sheriff's deputy with a knife and cut his arm and wrist and another deputy shot smith and he was pronounced dead a short time later, the deputy is suppose to be okay and authorities are trying to determine smith's photoives. the violence was not limited to chefrt coins, to people were shot and wounded in delaware county. for more on what happened there, we turn to "action news" reporter, dann cuellar who is live at the scene. >> reporter: rick police and crime scene investigators are here gathering evidence, they

are at 23 east glenolden avenue, it was just after the noon hour that two men shot two other men on the street and sped off in two separate vehicles, both men were transferred to the hospital and are in stable condition, what prompted the shooting is unknown but they towed away a car with delaware tags from the scene and going in and out of the apartment building, the witness says that one victim was seen on the street with a gunshot wound to the top of the head. >> i passed a person who looked like he was doing sit-up on the sidewalk which wasn't common and i saw a wun on the top of his head and he was trying to get up. i then proceeded down the street made the 911 call -- >> back live here at east glenolden avenue where authorities are working the crime scene, we expect district attorney jack walen to -- both

are said to be in stable condition in the hospital. we are live in glenolden, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. police say a gunman used a t-shirt and bicycle to rob a deli on monday, surveillance video shows him riding to the deli with a shirt wrapped around his head and then the gunman rushed the counter and demanded cash after taking handfuls of money he took off without hurting the clerk. detectives in west oak lane are looking for two burglars that made no effort to hide their crime, they captured the burglars casually walking up to the home carrying a ladder and they climbed in through a second story window and from they they carted off a safe and a gun. if you have any information on the break-in, philadelphia police want to hear from you.

the funding for special education continues today. the state of pennsylvania and the upland school district asked for $27 million less to charter schools for special ed students, the attorneys for the charter schools said that would compromise the ability to teach the special education children. well, speaking of schools you won't just find parents and studentses back to school shopping and teachers too, pencils, notebooks, glue and everything you find in a well stocked school in and around philadelphia is typically purchased by the teachers out of pocket. until now. >> meet one north philadelphia educator who found a creative way to finance the classroom. >> brushes, pains, scissors we

have colored pencils, i'm so excited. it's the little thing that gets her excited to start the school year but the little things cost a lot. i was making a list of what i needed to do to get my classroom up and running this year and i went into shock, i thought i need help, i cannot do this on my own. >> the city of philadelphia gives each teacher a stipend of 1 1 1$100 to stock their classroom last year. >> last year i spend 900 there's that is not a lot. >> that is not? >> no some teaches spend thousands of thrasher. >> i thought should i ask people for help? >> that is what she did with her go fund me page, in two weeks she met her $800 goal. things show up in the mail and on my doorstep, i'm overwhelmed

and excite that people are excited about helping. >> this will help her buy extra uniforms and other items for students that go without. >> we have care package with toothpaste and feminine care products. >> this fueled fundraising is keeping his school well stocked. >> we use facebook and twitter and anything to get the word out. >> and she is keeping her page going, to pay it forward. >> anything that is donated now will go to another teacher that needs it. >> more than 41,000 teachers across the nation raised $17 million this year alone. we'll post a link to her page so you can help to pay it forward. she got volunteer help from this cutie here, her daughter, angela. >> a graduate to involve the community too. the cost can be absorbtant.

>> a great cause. boy oh boy, the weather streak will continue? >> we are paying it forward in the weather department toorks we will get similar days day after day if you like the low humidity and sun. >> we do. >> you actually like something? >> yes, i do, i like nydia. >> ben franklin bridge, a couple of clouds, 88 warm degrees but the dew point is down 55 degrees, we don't have the heat index the same as the air temperature. the dew point is in the 40s in the poconos with the west-southwestly wind as we look at atlantic city, the temperature is 82 but the dew point is still 70 so it's tropical there, we'll drop that into the 50s tonight, and it will feel comfortable if you are hitting a boardwalk this evening for ice-cream or pizza or monkey bread or any of that great

stuff. all of the above. >> we'll have the seven-day forecast to talk about the beautiful stretch through the weekend. >> or even a salad, which i don't care for. >> your nose is growing. the preparations continue all across the region for the historic visit of pope francis, including nuns that are busy in the kitchen, monica malpass is live now with that story. >> reporter: hi there, yes, the sisters are working hard to fill an order for 100,000 communion wavers that will be handed out during the pontiff's visit. coming up tonight nora muchanic finds out the exact process to make the communion host and what they have planned for the pope while he is in philadelphia. and a big change for animal services in delaware whark agency will take over to help the animals. that and more on "action news"

at 5:00. >> thank you monica. next year's philadelphia flower show celebrates the 100th anniversary of the park service, they announced the theme today, next year's flower show will be called explore america, and explore iconic sites from parks across the country. 6 abc is the official broadcast partner. the flower show returns to the convention center march 5th 2016. >> looks delicious. coming up on "action news" at 4:30, if you still have not picked up a back to school backpack stick around we are helping you gear up. how the people behind this caitlyn jenner halloween costume are defending their product. >> coming up. and you won't want to miss the way a single womb linked a

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a wrong way driver in utah led police on a wild chase down a busy interstate and the whole thing was caught on camera. >> we have traffic shut down, i don't know what she is doing. still going the wrong way but traffic is all the way down to a stand still. >> police say that 32-year-old natalie peterson drove the wrong way down the highway despite repeated attempts to stop her. they stopped her by ramming her car twice. >> she got off on foot and tried to carjack other cars in the area and they had to take her into custody. >> they believe that peterson was driving under the influence and fortunately no one else was hurt. >> we stumble from time to time

and most of us tonight use a $1.5 million painting to break our fall, it happened to a boy in tie won and tripped over a barrier punching a hole right through the piece as he tumbled. 350-year-old painting is on loan from italy, fortunately for the clumsy kid, the artwork was repaired at no cost to his family, this type of incident is why they have insurance. >> woops. >> at health check at 4:00, a woman in sweden had given birth from the transplanted womb given by her own mother. the woman lost her own womb to cancer in her 20s and thought she would not have a family of her own and her donated her own womb. >> she has done the most amazing thing someone could do for

another woman. and she is also my grandmother. so it's undescribable. >> the little boy is happy s. healthy, and very active. the new mother is just one of four women that had a baby with a transplanted womb, grandmom knows she is part of medical history and the pioneering transplants are being done in gothenburg. big talkers now, this is not what they want to see when they trop off their daughters for college move-in day, banners with sexually suggestive messages, rowdy and fun hope your baby girl is ready for a good time, freshman daughter drop-off and go ahead and drop-off mom too. the members of the fraternity found them funny and the school

found them sickening and unacceptable and suspended the chapter while they investigate. >> the seniors were just having fun with the signs, writing dads we'll take it from here and daughter day care 2.0. they did respond to calls to take the signs down. halloween costumes are already on sale, i know it's only august. one was created in the spirit of a big event this year, caitlyn jenner's transformation, they call it a mockery and the unisex call me caitlyn costume is listed in the humorous category including the white bodious and sash, a change.org petition right now asks that it be

recalled. they chosen to sell the costume, because jenner is the first real life super hero of the year and it merely celebrates her. and one california dad is going viral. mickey willis tells her son choose what you are into, choose your sexuality, after his 2-year-old picked out a toy for his birthday. >> this is what he chose. now how do you think a dad feels when his son wants to get this? >> yeah! that is how i feel. >> willis's video is shared millions of times, he tells abc news that kids need to learn how to express themselves and conforming to what society wants clearly not working. he is inspiring people along the way. we love our disney princesses.

>> it was a great movie. for sure. lets get a check of the roads tonight. matt pellman is back in the traffic center with an update. >> not going to be saying yeah about this traffic situation, westbound side of 422, there is a crash in this normally busy spot, westbound approaching the pennsylvania turnpike overpass and they have it mostly pushed over to the side and you can see how slowly everyone is going. if you are coming off the schuylkill or 202, getting on to 422 westbound expect extra slowing this afternoon. north coventry, a crash at 422 by the northbound lanes and northbound at 100, another accident at pottstown pike at buyers town road and new town township delco, near goshen road. upper moreland a crash that

brought down the wires at county line road and close to the market place and another wreck at abington and meeting house road. normal stuff on the schuylkill and 95, a northbound crash at bridge street, and depford township, close to the boston market look for downed wires near 544 and northern delaware another crash on route 3 marsh road. something for everyone, we'll check it again in the 5:00 hour. >> you are so giving matt. >> i keep giving and giving. >> thank a lot matt. stepping outside, sky 6 hd looking live at cape may, new jersey, a beautiful shot there. meteorologist, adam joseph, has your exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast.

meteorologist, adam joseph, back now. >> good day for weeding. want to know what else i did. it was beautiful to do no matter what it was, and if not today, you have the rest of the week. the action cam was enjoying the outdoors, looking at the leaves producing the color fill, the longer days of sunshine, until we start to break down the chlorophyll, you'll see the oranges and reds in the next month or so, looking at stormtracker 6 live double scan all is quiet, there were lingering showers this afternoon at shore but the showers and storms pushed off the coast,

north and west, 79 in quakertown and kennett square, 82 degrees, upper 70s to the north and warm in southern new jersey, 87 in hammonton and a sea breeze trying to kick in there. warm at 78 and the state of delaware temperatures in the low 80s, we are wedged right now against the coast and bigelow pressure spinning along the great lakes and the clouds remain over the great lakes for the next couple of days. for tonight a clear sky and comfortable 50s and 60s and with the low humidity, you'll have a little bit of fall feeling in the air tonight and wednesday itself, average temperature 84 degrees and sunny and comfy and you see the trough the area of low pressure, we grasp the

sunshine and another beauty on thursday as high pressure starts to break down the trough, and the sun and low humidity, low 80s for highs and the ocean of 78 and beaches in delaware, 84 degrees and sunshine there as well with the ocean 76. speaking of the ocean, the tropics, tropical storm erica, the wins came down to 40 miles per hour sustained. moving to the west at 20 and if we track erica, it will move toward the leeward islands just to the north of guadeloupe, still as a tropical storm and then it heads to the turks and caicos over the weekend still as a tropical storm and could encounter sheer preventing erica from forming into a hurricane. the exclusive accuweather forecast, quiet for the rest of the week, low humidity and full sunshine and average temperatures in the low to

middle 80s, it turns warmer and more humidity over the weekend and we start to get on the verge of 90 for the end of august and the beginning of september in combination with the humidity, the 90 won't be as harsh as it would have been in the month of july. >> i'm always confused by mother nature. >> we are going back to school. oh my gosh, it's the guy from last night. what?! can i jump on your wi-fi? yeah, you can try it. hey! i had a really good time last night. yeah, me too. the only thing is that...

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it's that time of year again, back to school and back to school shopping and consumer reports has backpack buying advice to help you gear up. for many students back to school happiness hinges on the back back, i like to focus on the color and space in it and pockets to hold extra stuff. >> experts at consumer reports say you should consider other at

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"action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with jaime apody, meteorologist, cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. a man who jumped the white house fence months ago was shot and killed today by sheriff's deputies when he pulled a knife on them in a chester county justice center, the big story tonight is the attack on a deputy sheriff in westchester. >> the attacker was known to local and federal authorities walter perez is live with more. >> the whole thing unfolded at lunch time right here at the justice center and he is identified as curtis smith of coatesville, a man that made international headlines earlier this year.

>> the neighbors in coatesville said they knew that curtis smith was the guy that jumped the white house fence last march, but is known as a loving husband and father of two. >> was real good to his boys and stuff like that. he ways christian guy, a real strong, strong willed guy, a good guy. >> but around noon today smith burst his way into the chester coins courthouse wielding a knife andwitzes say he was visibly agitated. >> he went through security and said i'm going to get you i'm going to get you and then pop pop pop, that sound was smith getting shot repeatedly after slashing a deputy across the arm and wrist and smith was taken to paoli hospital where he died a short time later, the courthouse remained in lockdown for a few hours as a precaution. >> the sheriffs did their jobs and the lock down went