MANOR, Texas (AP) _ Authorities are investigating after a Central Texas high school was briefly evacuated when someone spotted a replica grenade in the vehicle of a man who wasn’t a faculty member or student.
Travis County sheriff’s spokesman Roger Wade says Manor High School was cleared and arriving students were diverted to a middle school when the device was seen before classes started Thursday.
Wade described the replica grenade as a novelty item and said officials “were trying to figure out why” it was in plain sight in the man’s vehicle.
Wade said it isn’t a crime to have the item, but the way it was found required a response.
Students were allowed back in the high school about two hours after the incident was reported.
Manor is 15 miles from Austin.
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