One person was wounded in a shooting at Washington University in St. Louis and the campus was temporarily locked down, the private school said on Wednesday. “GO TO a place where you feel safe and remain there until further notice”. The institution placed an alert on its website at 2:33 p.m. local time.
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In addition, Washington University mentions that Clayton Police are working alongside the university’s campus police in an investigation regarding the active shooting incident.
It’s unclear what sparked the shooting, but the university sent an alert to students, faculty and staff urging them to “shelter in place”. “Continue to shelter in place”, the school wrote on Twitter. Forsyth Boulevard has been closed off by police from the Wallace Drive light in front of the Danforth University Center to just past Edison Theatre.
The shooting happened about 1:30 p.m. along a road that separates the main campus from the university’s primary residential housing area.
University spokeswoman Sue Killenberg McGinn said that one person was injured in the shooting near the student union and performing arts building. But the campus isn’t immune from the gun violence that is more prevalent in other parts of the community.
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The school, which has about 13,000 full-time students, referred queries to Clayton, Missouri, police. The university reports that a female student was shot in the arm earlier in the afternoon.
