A recent shooting off of Brewster Avenue has led some students to be concerned with the reliability of the XU Alert Me system.
Currently residential students have the option to move off campus at the start of their junior year and have the choice of living in various surrounding neighborhoods adjacent to campus. The Xavier Police Department (XUPD) works directly with the Cincinnati and Norwood Police Departments in order to serve the campus community, as well as providing students, faculty and staff with the XU Alert ME system with direct communication if a campus-threatening event was to occur.
At 7:33 p.m. on the night of Sept. 26, a 911 call from a Xavier off-campus student was received by the Cincinnati Police Department (CPD) reporting that they heard gunshots in the area. 25-year-old Jawan Tyree Bates was the victim of a shooting, occurring down the street from Xavier University’s main campus, on Montgomery and Brewster Avenue. XUPD did not send a warning or an alert to the student body…