Villanova University issues alert for possible active shooter | Live Coverage

VILLANOVA, Pa. (WPVI) -- Students astatine Villanova University are being told to find a unafraid determination owed to reports of a imaginable progressive shooter.

According to a information alert sent precocious Thursday afternoon, students were told to fastener and barricade doors. The assemblage besides asked students to enactment wide of the Law School of Scarpa Hall.

"Police connected scene. Move to unafraid location. Lock/barricade doors. More info to follow," it said successful an progressive shooter incidental informing connected its website.

"We judge determination is simply a shooter," District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer told 6abc. "Somebody whitethorn person been changeable already, we're trying got fig that out."

Stollsteimer said helium could not supply immoderate accusation connected imaginable victims oregon immoderate injuries.

The Radnor Township Police Department confirmed it was connected the scene. The presumption from Chopper 6 shows instrumentality enforcement with tactical cogwheel entering buildings connected the campus.

Videos posted connected societal media showed a assemblage being rushed wrong a gathering connected campus. New pupil predisposition and registration started Thursday and is scheduled to spell until Saturday. Classes statesman Monday.

Brandon Ambrosino, a prof of theology and morals astatine Villanova who was not connected field astatine the time, said astir module members were not connected campus, but students moved successful connected Wednesday. He said helium and colleagues were struggling to find accusation astir the progressive shooter during the chaotic afternoon.

"None of my colleagues cognize what's happening. We're messaging backmost and forth," Ambrosino said.

State Rep. Lisa Borowski, whose territory includes Villanova, said that astatine astir 5 p.m. she received a substance from Radnor Township Police and Villanova field constabulary for section residents to structure successful place.

"I americium precise disquieted and precise concerned," Borowski said.

The field is located astir 12 miles northwest of Philadelphia's Center City.

The Augustinian schoolhouse got other attraction this twelvemonth arsenic the alma mater of caller Pope Leo XIV.

The Associated Press and ABC News contributed to this report.

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