Sykesville Middle School locked exterior doors and kept students inside for about 90 minutes Monday after police said a patient walked away from Springfield Hospital less than two miles away.
Sykesville police patrolled the school grounds until the lockdown ended about 9:15 a.m., when the patient turned himself in to the psychiatric hospital.
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