APD SAYS ALLEGED GUNMAN NOT A GUNMAN

 

APD STILL HASN'T FOUND THE MAN WHO REPORTEDLY FIRED A GUN NEAR MANZANO MESA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND EMCORE MONDAY AFTERNOON. SPOKESMAN TANNER TIXIER TELLS US 911 GOT SEVERAL CALLS FROM PEOPLE IN THE AREA REPORTING SHOTS FIRED NEAR EUBANK AND SOUTHERN. BUT TIXIER SAYS INVESTIGATORS STILL HAVE NO EVIDENCE ANY SHOTS WERE FIRED. HE SAYS THEY NO LONGER CONSIDER THE MAN AN "ALLEGED GUNMAN," BUT A PERSON THEY WANT TO TALK TO ABOUT WHY HE WAS WALKING AROUND WITH A RIFLE THAT DAY.

TIXIER TELLS US THE ONLY DESCRIPTION THEY HAVE IS THAT OF A TALL, THIN WHITE MALE, POSSIBLY WITH A BEARD OR GOATEE. THE INCIDENT HAD MANZANO MESA ELEMENTARY ON LOCKDOWN FOR SEVERAL HOURS.