Report of Modesto shooting turns up no signs of gunfire

A 911 caller who apparently mistook pounding on a door for gunfire led to a large police response in a neighborhood off McHenry Avenue on Tuesday morning.

About 10 a.m., police were notified of a reported shooting on Brian Court, off Codding Drive near Tokay Avenue. Nearby Standiford Elementary School on Tokay was placed on a precautionary lockdown.

The response included at least seven Modesto police vehicles, a firetruck and an ambulance. Several officers searched a home on Brian Court but found no evidence that shots had been fired.

A woman and children were in the back of one patrol car, and a man was in the back of another. The women and children were released, but the man was picked up on a warrant for parole violation, police said.

Medical responders were treating a man on the sidewalk of the 200 block of Brian. He was loaded onto an ambulance. A sergeant supervising the scene said he was not shot but rather suffered seizures.

The incident ended up being just an argument over rent, the supervising sergeant said.

This story was originally published December 1, 2015 at 12:03 PM with the headline "Report of Modesto shooting turns up no signs of gunfire."