On Tuesday, Feb. 24, WashU’s Danforth Campus went into shelter-in-place protocol following false reports of an armed person on campus, according to the Washington University Police Department (WUPD). WashU Emergency Management first notified campus of the potential armed individual at 9:19 a.m. after WUPD “received multiple calls reporting an individual with a weapon on the Danforth Campus.”
WashU Emergency Management declared there was no active threat in a message at 10:21 a.m. after police completed their search of the Danforth Campus. In an 11:30 a.m. email, WUPD Chief Angela Coonce said WUPD believed the reports “were not a credible threat.”
Some individuals also claimed that Saint Louis University (SLU) received similar calls, but SLU Senior Media Relations Specialist Maggie Rotermund told Student Life that SLU did not receive such calls…