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Police say armed man was buzzed into Darby elementary school

Police say a man with a loaded semi-automatic handgun was buzzed into an elementary school near Philadelphia and was arrested after fleeing and trying to get inside neighborhood houses.

File: Darby Police Chief Robert Smythe
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DARBY (AP) — Police say a man with a loaded handgun was buzzed into an elementary school near Philadelphia and was later arrested after trying to get inside neighborhood houses.

Darby Borough Police Chief Robert Smythe said the man, 21-year-old Nazher Sabree, was recognized as a former student by an office employee and allowed into Park Lane School in Darby on Friday. Sabree told the principal he was looking for a bag he’d lost and she escorted him out of the building.

He was then allegedly seen trying to get inside nearby houses, and police were notified. Smythe said Sabree threatened officers with the gun before he was arrested.

Smythe said Sabree had been acting erratically outside the school earlier in the day and never should have been let inside.

No one was harmed.

Messages seeking comment from the school district and principal were not immediately returned Friday.