UNC-Chapel Hill students were asked to shelter in place as police search the campus for an alleged armed person, police said.
Law enforcement respond to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus in Chapel Hill, N.C., Aug. 28, 2023, after the university locked down and warned of an armed person on campus.The University of North Carolina was under lockdown after police received reports of an "armed and dangerous" person on or near the Chapel Hill campus Monday afternoon.
Several police officers were on the scene and going through the campus throughout the afternoon. The alert went out around 1 p.m.The school's police released a photo of the person they were looking for but didn't immediately identify him.North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper released a statement, saying that he has pledged state resources to help find the person of interest.
"This is a tragic way to start a new semester and the state will provide any assistance necessary to support the UNC community," Cooper
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