Lockdown lifted at North Philadelphia school after gun goes off inside boy’s bathroom

The Philadelphia Police Department is investigating an incident at a North Philadelphia school that resulted in a temporary lockdown on Monday.

Authorities say the incident happened at the E Washington Rhodes School on W Clearfield Street in the North Philadelphia section of the city.

Police say a firearm was discharged in a boy’s bathroom inside the school.

According to officials, the school was immediately placed on lockdown around 11:15 a.m. after the gun went off in the bathroom.