Lockdown lifted at North Carolina healthcare facility with surgery center, man arrested — 5 insights

Police arrested a man who allegedly threatened to "shoot up" Southeastern Health Park in Lumberton, N.C., on Aug. 12, after the health facility entered a lockdown, The Robesonian reports.

What you should know:

1. Wallace Locklear, 59, of Rowland, N.C., was arrested at his home Aug. 12, and charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly threatening to fire at Southeastern Health Park.

2. Lumberton Sheriff Burnis Wilkins told The Laurinburg Exchange that Mr. Locklear made the threat at a nearby office. A person at Mr. Locklear's location called Health Park, which led to the 911 call, The Laurinburg Exchange reports.

3. The man was allegedly targeting a clinic at the Health Park facility.

4. Mr. Locklear never traveled to the facility, and the lockdown was lifted at 11 a.m.

5. Southeastern Health Park is an 80,000-square-foot facility with an ASC, a pharmacy and clinician offices.

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