MILWAUKEE — City Hall and Zeidler Municipal Building in downtown Milwaukee were placed on lockdown following a report of shots fired at the Zeidler Building. Authorities are now saying it was possibly a false alarm.
Jeff Fleming, press secretary for the Milwaukee Mayor's Office confirmed that police were called to suspected shots fired in a stairwell of the Zeidler building.
Mayor Cavalier Johnson provided an update Thursday afternoon, saying that an investigation has not yet uncovered any evidence of shots fired. They believe the noise could have been a door slamming.
"I think that someone was terminated and must have been disappointed by that news, and perhaps slammed a door one or multiple times and that created a loud noise that perhaps sounded like gunfire," Johnson told reporters during a media briefing on the incident.
He noted that employees did the right thing, "if you see something, say something."
Inspector Sheronda Grant of the Milwaukee Police Department added that there is a person of interest they want to talk to; however, there is no evidence of a shooting or shots fire. The incident remains under investigation.
There are no security checkpoints at Zeidler Building or City Hall.
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