

Chris Fox, CP24.com





George Brown College’s Casa Loma campus was placed under a lockdown for about two hours on Wednesday morning after a man pulled out a knife during a fight with another man.

The fight began outside a campus building at around 10 a.m. before spilling inside.

The man who pulled the knife then fled the scene, prompting police to order a lockdown of the building.

The lockdown was then lifted at around 12:15 p.m. after officers completed a sweep of the area.

“The most important priority for us is the safety of the students and staff here so we did follow the directions of the police and locked down the school as we were instructed,” Vice President of Human Resources Leslie Quinlan told CP24 at the scene. “Police have done a sweep of all the buildings on campus and they are comfortable that it is safe for the students and staff to go back inside.”

According to police, one person suffered a minor cut to the face as a result of the incident but was not taken to hospital.

Police say they have contacted a person of interest but have not made any arrests.

Police previously described the man armed with a knife as brown, in his late teens or early 20s, about five-foot-eleven with a skinny build.