A 12-year-old boy carrying an ax was spotted near Yucca Junior High and Parkview Elementary schools around noon Tuesday, and the schools were put on a precautionary lockdown for a little less than an hour while police searched for the boy, the Clovis News Journal reported today on its Web site.

The boy, whose name was not released, had been reported missing earlier in the day by his father but still hadn't been located by police as of Tuesday night, the paper reported.

Police, however, found a 2-foot, single-bladed, wooden ax underneath a railroad car near the 14th Street football field, the News Journal reported.

According to a police department news release, an adult passerby spotted the boy with the ax walking near the schools.

The adult asked the boy why he wasn't in school, and the boy said he had been suspended and was angry, a school spokesman told the News Journal.

When the adult tried to detain the boy, the boy ran away, and the passerby notified school authorities, the spokesman said.

Clovis police spokesman Lt. Jim Schoeffel told the News Journal that police conducted a thorough, but fruitless, search of the neighborhood Tuesday afternoon.

"We want to know what his intentions are," Schoeffel told the paper. "He is listed as a runaway. We want to find him and return him to his parents."

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