Three schools in Arlington were placed on lockout on May 18 as police hunted a suspect involved in a recent “violent incident.”
Arlington police said they received a tip that a suspect they had been looking for was spotted near Randol Mill Road and Fielder Road.
Officers immediately set up a perimeter around the area and began searching for the suspect. Arlington police said it placed three campuses — Pope and Speer Elementary schools and Wimbish World Language Academy — on “lockout out of an abundance of caution.”
Police said they located the suspect and two of his associates. All three people were arrested without incident.
Authorities did not reveal the suspects’ identities, but a resident, who spoke with NBC 5 News, described them as “young people.”
“I feel so sad because they are young, young people,” Maritza Bojanich said. “And, well, I hope something good is coming from this experience for them.”
Bojanich said she was having lunch when she noticed the three suspects run across her front yard, adding that she thought the three of them were jogging.
“The last young man was looking behind him running; I just realized they were running away from something that they did,” she said.
Bojanich provided NBC with footage from her Ring doorbell, which caught the men on video as they crossed her property.
Arlington police said they will release more details once the suspects are booked into jail and charged, but reported no injuries occurred during their efforts to apprehend the men.