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Police Respond to Reported Active Shooter at Villanova University

The campus issued a barricade order during the first day of classes.

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Overview

  • University alerts instructed students to barricade in rooms or classrooms after reports of a gunman.
  • Police moved onto the campus following the initial reports and reinforced the shelter-in-place directive.
  • Social-media video showed people running from an outdoor event near student housing with several white chairs overturned.
  • The incident occurred at the private Catholic university in the Philadelphia suburbs.
  • Authorities had not announced casualties, a suspect description, or containment details at the time of the latest reports.