UMass Lowell campus placed on lockdown over terrifying ‘gunman’ video
The University of Massachusetts Lowell was placed to lock for several hours following the reports of a possible active shooter on campus.
An armed man targets a rifle in the university buildings while walking on the campus in a video withdrawn from his windows on Campus on Wednesday.
The university put students and staff in a warning because the police started a human hunt for the suspect at 15:00 local time.
The Lowell police told Daily Mail that the locking was removed just before 17:30, but the alleged armed man was not found and the investigations are ‘active and continuing’.
Officers said they were looking for a 5’5 Asian man who had previously wearing a gray or white sweatshirt, black shorts and carrying a long weapon.
It was seen near Riverview Suites Residence Hall on the south campus.
Massachusetts state police and FBI agents responded to the scene to support local authorities, and there was a heavy police on the campus.
20 -year -old student Nicholas Robinson said Daily Mail was locked in a conference hall on campus with a crowd of other students for about two hours.
The suspect armed man, university students and staff under the warning of a shelter, while the university buildings were targeted a rifle.
Massachusetts University Lowell is locked following the reports of a possible active shooter on campus
While the officers are looking for the suspect, there is a heavy police on the campus right now
Robinson, immediately after local time after 17:00, “ “ “ we have been at Coburn Hall since the beginning … I want to say since 15:00, ‘he said. ‘We didn’t have contact with the police.’
Robinson also shared the video of a policeman who looked like a shepherd students on a bus right across the hall from the locked place.
Lowell Mayor Daniel Rourke, the city ‘currently uses all the existing resources’ he said.
The armed suspect is generally called ‘awake’ and ‘avoiding the region’.
There is no report on the campus, but the police are still looking for an armed suspect.
MSP, X’te, “ “ `Middlesex Street Riverview Suites while walking in Lowell while walking in a person who looks like an armed, we are aware of a traveling video, ‘said MSP X.
‘The state and the local police responded to the region to do more research. Anyone with the relevant information should call 911. ‘
Congress member Lori Trahan said he was watching the situation.
“ Umass Lowell’in near the south campus potentially a warning of an armed individual’s warning and tweeted in contact with local authorities, ” he tweeted.
‘If you are in Lowell, please follow the instructions from the Lowell Police Department (Official) and Umass Lowell.’
There is no report fired on the campus, but the police are still looking for the suspect
State police and FBI responded to the scene to support local authorities
The university issued a warning against students and staff because the police started a human hunt for the suspect.
A university spokesman told Boston Globe in a statement: ‘The police from the Umass Lowell and Lowell City was warned about the reports of a man carrying an object suspected to be a firearm after this afternoon.
‘As the civil servants tried to find this person, a shelter was organized around the campus.’
FBI works with a stage and law enforcement partners.
There are approximately 18,000 undergraduate and graduate students registered to UMASS Lowell and live in more than 3,700 campus residential halls.
As students return to campuses for autumn classes, ‘Swatting’ comes as a wave of the schedule of deception targets the country -wide colleges and universities.
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