SALINA -A report to the Kansas Highway Patrol just after 8:15 a.m. on Tuesday of a person along Interstate 70 with a 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 rifle near the Halstead Road exit, just north of the Ell-Saline Elementary School.

According to Trooper Ben Gardner via Twitter, “The man was located. He is a transient and was lying in a ditch with a guitar in a guitar case.”

The lockdown was quickly lifted.