ST. LOUIS — Washington University students and staff were given the all-clear Thursday afternoon, about an hour after an alert about an armed person on the university's Danforth Campus.
The first alert was sent at around 3:15 and told students, faculty and staff on campus to hide and barricade themselves in a room until further notice. Any students not on campus were told to stay away. At around 4:25, the university said the "person in question has been located and there is no active threat related to this incident."
A Washington University Police Department spokesperson said a student reported seeing someone on campus with what looked like a gun. Officers located the person and determined it was not a gun.
The alert said the university will provide updates at emergency.wustl.edu when they become available.