Cicero Police Chief Jerry Chlada said Morton East High school was placed in Lockdown on Tuesday (Dec. 10, 2019) at around 10:30 AM after a student reported another individual had told her he had an automatic weapon in his possession. Chlada praised the student for doing the right thing in bringing that information to administrators at the school who immediately notified Cicero Police. Cicero police then conducted a thorough search of the school and concluded that there never was a real threat to any of the students and that the report of a student holding a weapon turned out to not be true. “At no time were any of the students at Morton East in any danger,” Chlada said. “But we don’t take anything like this for granted and we did a thorough investigation before concluding the reports of someone with a weapon were not true.” Chlada praised school officials for acting quickly and the student who brought the information to the school’s attention.