Around 8:15 Tuesday morning, a report of a person along I-70 with a long gun led to a brief lockdown at Ell-Saline Elementary School.

Saline County Sheriff Glen Kochanowski said The Kansas Highway Patrol received a report of a man with a long rifle near the Halstead Road exit approximately a half mile north of the Ell-Saline Elementary School.

According to Trooper Ben Gardner via Twitter, The man was located and is a transient that was laying in a ditch with a guitar in a guitar case.

The lockdown was quickly lifted.