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Lockdown lifted after shots fired near Pleasantville elementary school


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Pleasantville police are investigating after an elementary school was put on lockdown following shots reported nearby.

A ShotSpotter alert registered gunfire in the area of Chestnut and West Edgewater avenues, police confirmed.

The area is next to South Main Street Elementary School, which was put on lockdown as a precaution.

No one was injured. The windshield of a dark-colored Cadillac parked in the first block of West Edgewater was struck by gunfire, police told BreakingAC

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BreakingAC founder who previously worked in newspapers for more than two decades. She is an NJPA award-winner and was a Stories of Atlantic City fellow.



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