Yesterday’s shelter-in-place issued in response to suspicious individual
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Tuesday morning at 10:07 a.m. Texas Wesleyan University issued a shelter in place notice after they were notified by the Fort Worth Police Department of a “suspicious individual with a potential gun near Thrall St. and Avenue A.”
The lockdown was lifted at 10:21 a.m. after FWPD gave campus security the all-clear.
At 10:39 a.m. Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students Dennis Hall released a statement saying that “an Emergency Alert was sent out to the Texas Wesleyan University community as a precautionary measure to shelter in place after we were notified by the Fort Worth Police Department (FWPD).
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A FWPD spokesperson said, “Officers responded to the scene and were unable to locate anyone in the area.”
The nearby Polytechnic High School also had a “stay in place” in response to the same incident.
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Jake Parker is a Senior at Texas Wesleyan University and works for the Rambler as a Content Producer. Originally from Killeen, TX, he now calls Fort Worth...