{"id":637468,"date":"2026-04-29T02:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T02:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/637468\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T02:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T02:16:10","slug":"logan-school-sent-into-lockdown-after-man-with-what-looked-to-be-a-firearm-spotted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/637468\/","title":{"rendered":"Logan school sent into lockdown after man with &#8216;what looked to be a firearm&#8217; spotted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of students and teachers at a south-east <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/queensland\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Queensland\">Queensland<\/a> school were sent into lockdown this morning amid reports of a man with a potential firearm, which turned out to be a gel blaster.<\/p>\n<p>Classes had only just begun \ufeffat Loganlea State High School when the man was spotted &#8220;with what looked to be a firearm&#8221; near the school, Queensland police confirmed to nine.com.au.<\/p>\n<p>This prompted the school&#8217;s executive staff to issue a lockdown order, with students reporting staff and classmates took cover in the school hall and other buildings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/ed62ff4c-f3bd-4aad-adb9-1e2cbacda7fa.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>Loganlea State High School was placed in lockdown this morning after a man was spotted with what was thought to be a firearm. (Google Maps)<\/p>\n<p>Police attended at around 9am, where they found a man on Neridah Street \ufeffcarrying a gel blaster.<\/p>\n<p>The man has been arrested and no one was harmed in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The school&#8217;s lockdown order has since been \ufefflifted and normal classes have resumed.<\/p>\n<p>An email was sent to parents\ufeff advising them that the lockdown was precautionary.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/cdb25053-7ca1-4eaa-aa8a-e7e705054324.png\"   alt=\"An email sent to parents from the school confirmed everyone was safe and the lockdown was precautionary.\"\/>An email sent to parents from the school confirmed everyone was safe and the lockdown was precautionary. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I received information this morning that someone in the community had a gun,&#8221; the email reads.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I immediately put the school in lockdown and called 000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can confirm that the police have notified me that they found this person, and they in fact had a gel blaster, not a gun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All staff and students are safe. The school is no longer in lock down and students have returned to normal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffGel blasters are replica-type firearms that shoot a small pellet that has been soaked in water.<\/p>\n<p>They are not pr\ufeffohibited in Queensland for people aged over 18, but given many look identical to real firearms there are laws on how they can be used in public.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of students and teachers at a south-east Queensland school were sent into lockdown this morning amid reports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-637468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}