“The campus is not in lockdown”. A dispatcher affiliated to the university police was also unable to provide any details.
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UIW officials said the campus was never officially locked down, instead students were encouraged to stay where they were until an all-clear was issued by police.
“We put out an alert”.
The first call came in around 5:40pm, “from a female student who reported an unknown male, wearing all black, packing a rifle”, UIW Police Chief Robert Chavez said.
“We haven’t been able to confirm that anybody was on campus”, Chavez said.
An image of a person with a firearm atop a building on the UIW campus briefly went viral on San Antonio social media.
“No suspect has been found to support the initial report”, the school said via Twitter. The lockdown was called off at about 7:50 p.m. No suspect was found to support the report.
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Students at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio received a rave alert Tuesday evening that a suspected gunman was spotted on campus and to take caution. Tuesday evening, multiple agencies responded after a similar report, searching the campus and surrounding area but finding no sign of a suspect.
