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Clark County School District police said they arrested Zechery Campbell, 49, Thursday afternoon at Silverado High School after he brought a gun onto school property.

He was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on the recommended charges of loitering about school with a weapon, possession of a dangerous weapon on school property and resisting arrest. Campbell's first name is spelled Zachary according to county jail records.

Police said they recovered an unloaded 9 mm handgun.

Police Lt. Ken Young said Campbell, who is not a school employee, did not take the gun into the school.

The school was placed on lockdown for a short time as police investigated, but later reopened.

Police said at 11:30 a.m. they were notified that two "school-age males" were being chased by an adult with a firearm. School police then found Campbell in Silverado's parking lot. He matched the description of the man giving chase.

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