An investigation is underway after a threatening phone call forced Newport Hospital into a lockdown Saturday afternoon.

Officers rushed to the hospital just before 4 p.m. after learning someone had called and told staff that a man was coming to “shoot the place up,” according to police.

Newport Hospital immediately went into lockdown as officers guarded the hospital entrances.

Police said there is no credible threat to the hospital, patients, staff or the general public at this time and the lockdown has been “scaled back.”

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