Gunman scare locks down campus

Skyline Campus went into a lockdown on Aug. 8 because of a nearby gunman sighting.

“The witness was on [San Francisco County] jail property and the suspect was on city property outside of Skyline campus,” San Bruno Police Commander Geoff Caldwell said. “The suspect was never seen on campus.”

The report was first made to the San Francisco Sheriff’s department saying that a rifle wielding man was seen on a trail adjacent to campus. From there Skyline College and the San Bruno Police Department were contacted.

Four nearby police departments were involved in the manhunt, according to a press release from San Bruno City Police. These included San Francisco and San Mateo County Sheriffs in addition to officers from South San Francisco and Pacifica police departments.

The report concluded that no suspect was found and after a short period of time Skyline College was open again.

As the last day of summer session there were 18 classes scheduled. Some were in meeting as the lockdown occurred and Skyline cancelled the remaining 11 classes.

“The safety of our students, faculty and staff is our number one priority and we acted immediately with that in mind,” Skyline College Administration wrote via email. “The initial ten minutes after notification, officers responded quickly and calmly and multi-tasked to lock the campus down and maintain the safety of all.”

This article was updated to fix an error, there is no San Bruno County Police only San Bruno City Police. 1:04 P.M. 9/4/2013.