BATON ROUGE — Baton Rouge Community College's Mid-City campus was placed on lockdown Wednesday afternoon after receiving a threat.

Around 1:06 p.m., Baton Rouge Police received a notification about the threat made to the school's campus on Florida Boulevard, a spokesperson said. By 1:50 p.m., the lockdown was lifted.

A message sent to BRCC students and staff said that the campus was put on lockdown as the threat was investigated.