Curfew lifted after investigation into threat against Portland church – NBC Connecticut

On Saturday afternoon, police responded to a Portland church after receiving a threat alert from a crisis hotline. After conducting a search, police determined the building was safe.

A veterans crisis hotline called dispatchers in Middletown around 12:22 p.m. and said the man on the line told them he was at the Middletown–Portland Seventh Day Adventists Church on Waverly Avenue in Portland, had a gun and planned to shoot people and then turn the gun on himself, police said.

Portland and Middletown police officers responded, cordoned off the area to the public and issued a call for residents to seek safety.

There were 27 people in the church who were evacuated.

Portland and Middletown police searched the church and concluded it was safe and no one inside posed an active threat.

The investigation is ongoing.