When an armed man walked into Jonestown Elementary School on Thursday afternoon, he told a staff member “I’m here for myself.”

Though the man ran out of the school without harming anyone, he stole a car and ran over a Jonestown borough employee during a chase before police detained him. Police have not yet identified the man.

State police in Lebanon County said around 3 p.m., two concerning calls came to the station relating the their suspect.

First, right at 3 p.m., there was a call for a suspicious man in the 2300 block of Quarry Road in Swatara Township. The caller reported that a man approached a child getting off a school bus, police said. The man put a cell phone in the child’s mailbox, and was standing at the mailbox offering the device as the child got off the bus.

The child walked home, and the man followed him, police said. He tried getting into the child’s house, but the child’s mother stopped him.

Police said the man was acting suspiciously and began walking along Lancaster Street after the boy’s mother came outside.

A trooper went to the area, and began checking the area and around Jonestown Elementary School.

Around 3:18 p.m., the call came in that the man went into the school with a gun.

Police said the man followed a parent in through the front door, then went to the office. When someone asked him if he was there to pick up a student, the man told a staff member “I’m here for myself.”

Police said he was told to leave, but refused and began running through the school.

He told school staff “you don’t want to do this” and a parent joined the chase, police said. He told the parent the same thing, then lifted his shirt and exposed his waistband, before running out of the school.

The school was placed on lockdown as a result of the incident.

Troopers were arriving on scene as the man ran out of the school, and a witness told them the man ran through an alley, police said.

A trooper found the man, walking backwards with his hands tucked into his waistband, police said.

The man refused orders to show his hands, so the trooper drew his weapon. The man fled on foot, through Jonestown Park.

The chase went on for about a half mile through the park, during which the man drew and pointed a silver pistol at the trooper and swore at him, telling him not to chase him.

The man ran toward the Jonestown Borough maintenance building, where a borough employee had just backed up a small dump truck into their garage.

The man went into the garage, got into the unattended truck and drove out of the garage. Police said the man drove over the borough employee during the escape.

Police initiated a pursuit of the man, and spike strips were deployed. Police said a successful tactical maneuver was done in the area of 78 Greble Road, and the man was taken into custody.

The gun was located a short distance away in the road, and the man was in possession of an empty holster.

The borough employee was taken to Hershey Medical Center for treatment.

Police said the man was charged with aggravated assault, possession of a weapon on school property, attempted burglary and fleeing and eluding, however online court records were not available Thursday for for any matching arrests.