Note leads to college lockdown

St. Peter’s College locked down its campus for several hours after the discovery of a note that referred to killing students and the shootings at Virginia Tech.

The lockdown ended after a room-by-room police search of the roughly 3,000-student campus turned up nothing dangerous, school spokeswoman Lorraine McConnell said.

Campus security became aware of the handwritten note, taped in the stairwell of an administration and classroom building, McConnell said.

Within two minutes, the college sent students e-mail and cellphone text message alerts, using a system set up after April’s massacre at Virginia Tech, where a gunman killed 32 people before killing himself.