St. Luke’s Meridian was briefly placed on lockdown at about 4:00p today after a specific active shooter threat was made to hospital staff and police. According to an Attempt to Locate put out by Idaho State Police, units are currently looking for a man who “Threatened to shoot up the hospital, and shoot the police.”
According to scanner traffic, the suspect is still at large at this hour.
According to several BND followers, the lockdown was lifted shortly after 4:30p today.
There’s more info going out on the scanner, but this is what we’re comfortable running. Our goal is to give you the information you need without putting officers or first responders in danger.