2 weeks ago
12
(NewsNation) — Students astatine the University of Arkansas were alerted that determination is simply a study of an progressive shooter connected campus.
Fayetteville constabulary accidental the archetypal telephone came successful astatine 12:30 p.m. connected Monday. Police accidental determination are nary confirmed gunshots oregon injuries. Four calls were received by constabulary successful antithetic locations astir campus.
Police person investigated each of the locations, and a ample constabulary beingness remains connected campus. No arrests person been made.
The assemblage said connected societal media that they were responding to multiple reports astir campus, and advised students to proceed to enactment alert.
In a substance alert sent retired Monday afternoon, students were advised to enactment distant from the country of Mullins Library, according to NewsNation affiliate KNWA. The room is successful a cardinal country of the assemblage campus, a fewer blocks eastbound of the college’s shot stadium.
It is the main room installation connected campus, according the university’s website, and houses offices and survey spaces successful summation to the books, machine laboratory and peculiar collections.
University of Arkansas inferior Brock Boddie told KNWA helium was connected the 3rd level of Mullins Library erstwhile helium heard radical yelling and moving around. Moments later, helium received the assemblage alert. Boddie and different students were ushered into different building, wherever helium saw equipped officers extracurricular the room with guns drawn, ordering students to evacuate.
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said successful a social media post that she is successful interaction with schoolhouse administrators and is monitoring the concern with them, and advised radical to "stay alert, and travel the absorption of instrumentality enforcement."
The alert astatine the University of Arkansas comes days aft 3 different assemblage campuses were locked down aft reports of progressive shooters. Villanova University and the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga were locked down Thursday, and the University of South Carolina was alerted to a imaginable shooter Sunday. In each 3 erstwhile cases, nary grounds of an progressive shooter was found.
Arkansas Rep. Steve Womack took to X and said helium and his squad are intimately monitoring the reports.
Law enforcement officers stitchery successful beforehand of the room connected the University of Arkansas field portion responding to reports of a shooting Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, successful Fayetteville, Ark. (AP Photo/Michael Woods)
