Local police allowed students, staff, and others to “resume normal activities”, more than an hour after the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill community was placed on lockdown due to a warning of an “armed and dangerous person.”
Since the beginning of the semester, the school has been placed on lockdown twice due to the same threat. Following the lockdown, university administrators suspended classes for the remainder of the day, according to UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz, who spoke at a news conference on Wednesday.
“All clear. All clear,” local police wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, at 2:10 p.m.
The university sent an email at 12:54 p.m. stating that they “have activated the Alert Carolina sirens because police report an armed and dangerous person on or near campus.” People were told to “follow directions from emergency responders” and “go inside immediately, close windows and doors, and stay until further notice.”
