Machete-Wielding Suspect At Elementary School + Amber Alert​

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First, today's weather:

Clear throughout the day. High: 83 Low: 57.

Here are the top stories in Oklahoma City today:

1. An Oklahoma City mother and teacher protected elementary students from a machete-wielding suspect on Wednesday. Khristina Covert was dropping her children off at school around 7:40 a.m. when she noticed a teenager attempting to get inside the building. The school, Cesar Chavez Elementary school, was placed on a brief lockout while Oklahoma City Public School security and Oklahoma City police investigated the threat. (News On 6)
2. Police have arrested two people following an Amber Alert after a 10-year-old boy and car were taken from Newcastle Casino. A woman, who is one of the people arrested, went to the casino around 4 a.m. on Sept. 22. and left her car running with the keys in the ignition, and her 10-year-old son in the car. A short time later, a man now identified as 36-year-old Seth Grant got into the car and took off. (KFOR Oklahoma City)
3. Police are investigating a deadly shooting that took the life of 64-year-old Albert Thompson in northeast Oklahoma City near NE 13th and Walnut Avenue. (News9)
4. A person is in custody after an hours-long standoff with police in at an apartment complex near Southwest 74th Street and Western Avenue in southwest Oklahoma City on Tuesday night. (KOCO Oklahoma City)
5. The Civic Center Music Hall is now a certified Sensory Inclusive Venue, as an effort to better serve their sensory sensitive audience. (KFOR Oklahoma City)

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About me: Helen Eckhard is a marketing assistant at Lightning Media Partners. She is a self-professed logophile who is currently pursuing her master’s degree in library science. Outside of work, you can find Helen constructing crossword puzzles, knitting, or devising increasingly crafty ways to kill off characters in her mystery novels.