PECOS, Texas — The Reeves County Hospital was placed on lockdown Tuesday, according to a hospital spokesperson.
According to a Facebook post by the Reeves County Sheriff's Office, authorities received information about a person with a gun inside the hospital.
Sheriff Granado determined the post that caused the alarm was not related to Reeves County, and believes the post came about after a man was arrested with a gun in a Lubbock hospital.
Law enforcement cleared both the hospital and the rural health clinic.
A hospital employee was taken into custody after he was found in his office in possession of a firearm.
However, according to Sheriff Granado, the employee was not a threat and he was only arrested because the hospital is a gun-free zone. He did have a license to carry.
Anthony Lee Gonzalez, 40, has been charged with unlawfully carrying a weapon in certain prohibited places, a Class A misdemeanor. His bond was set at $2,000.
Everything was cleared and the sheriff's office said there was no longer a threat before the hospital resumed regular business.
Lubbock Police later revealed the identity of the suspect involved in the Covenant Health incident.
38-year-old Brandon Rydell Davis was transported to Lubbock County Detention Center and was been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and an unrelated misdemeanor warrant. Davis' bond has been set at $50,000.
According to Lubbock Police, Davis was in an argument with other employees when he left the hospital and came back soon after with what people believed to be a handgun. Davis pointed the gun at a Covenant employee, who tackled him and held him down until LPD arrived.
After police arrested him, it was determined that the handgun was actually a BB gun.