PORT BARRE, La. (KLFY) – UPDATE: This morning at approximately 7:30 a.m., the Port Barre police department received information that Robert Gaudet, 53 of Port Barre, made threatening statements indicating there was going to be a shooting at the Port Barre high school.

Police secured the high school and the school was placed on lockdown.

A PBHS administrator contacted the police department and informed that Gaudet’s wife, a PBHS employee, told him that a Gaudet threatened suicide before leaving their home for work this morning and threatened he will “shoot up” the school.

He then went to a local gas station and told several people, including a sheriff deputy which happened to be there, that there was going to be a shooting at the high school.

Port Barre police located Gaudet, on his job, and transported him to the police department for questioning. An arrest warrant was secured and Gaudet was booked and charged with terrorizing.

He was the transported to the St. Landry parish jail.The St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office and the St. Landry Parish School Board have confirmed that the lockdown was lifted before 10 a.m. today. 

ORIGINAL STORY: We just received word into the KLFY Newsroom that Port Barre High School is currently on lock-down.

According to the St. Landry Parish Superintendent, the school is on lock-down due to a domestic incident.

A Port Barre High School Employee’s relative made a threat to someone off campus and the school has been placed on lock-down until police can locate the relative.

The Superintendent did clarify that there are no weapons on campus.

We’ll have more on this story as it develops.