MESA, AZ — A police investigation Thursday afternoon prompted a lockdown at Mesa Community College near Dobson Road and Southern Avenue, according to Mesa police.
Police say the incident stemmed from a domestic violence situation in which a man and a woman got into a fight at a different location in Mesa. The woman left the area with another person in a vehicle, and the man chased their vehicle at a high rate of speed.
After both vehicles got off the US 60 at Dobson Road, the vehicle the woman was in failed to navigate the turn and got in a crash. Witnesses told police that the man got out of his vehicle and assaulted the woman and the other individual before leaving the scene in an unknown direction.
About an hour after the lockdown was issued, MCC said it had been lifted.
Mesa police initially said that Banner Desert Hospital was on lockdown, though the hospital confirmed to ABC15 that they were never on lockdown. A follow-up release from police states the hospital's "security team took appropriate precautions."
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This investigation is ongoing.
