A 17-year-old has been arrested after bringing a BB gun into a Medical Center in Henderson.

According to police, at about 12:36 p.m. Thursday, security employees of Maria Parham Medical Center observed through video monitoring an unidentified male retrieving a firearm from an automobile.

The male was running towards the physicians' entrance of the hospital and entering through the basement.

Security officers called police. The hospital followed normal protocol procedures and went into lockdown and officers began systematically searching the hospital floor by floor.

The man was later identified as John Christopher Cole, 17, of 315 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive in Greensboro.

Cole was located away from the hospital at Kerr Vance Academy where he is a student.

The alleged firearm was recovered with the assistance of the suspect. Cole was arrested and charged with misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a weapon on school grounds.