Reports of gunshots drew a large police presence to the west side of Tuscaloosa Thursday afternoon, but so far they have found no victims or damaged property.

Stephanie Taylor, a spokesperson for the Tuscaloosa Police Department, told the Thread that dispatchers received a call of shots fired not far from Central Elementary School.

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The call came in around 2:30 p.m., and Taylor said officers responded to and searched the area of 16th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard across the ball field from the elementary school.

The incident drew a large number of patrol officers to the area, and a police helicopter and at least one of TPD's cyber unit drones were in the skies patrolling from the air.

As of 2:45, it appears if there was a shooting, no one was struck by the gunfire.

This is a developing story - stay connected to the Tuscaloosa Thread for updates if any are made available.

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