Jackson County schools were on lockdown Thursday after Kentucky State Police say there was a wanted man in the area.

The school’s superintendent, Mike Smith, said he was notified that Terry Allen Whitehouse, 37, could be coming to the area.

Smith says they worked closely with law enforcement until school was out. There was never any danger to students or staff.

Police have informed that Whitehouse killed a man and then kidnapped his wife and mother-in-law in Henry County.

Whitehouse had just been released on his own recognizance from Shelby County Detention Center yesterday after being arrested for violating an emergency protection order.

An attempt to locate has been issued for a 2001 white Chrysler Town and Country minivan with Kentucky license 647 FPB. Anyone who sees the vehicle should call the police.

He is considered armed and dangerous.