Overview

• UMass Lowell issued a campus-wide shelter-in-place on South Campus and canceled classes and events during the response.
• Emergency alerts described a roughly 5'5 Asian male in a gray or white sweatshirt and black shorts reportedly carrying a long weapon near Riverview Suites on Middlesex Street.
• Massachusetts State Police, Lowell police, UMass Lowell police, FBI Boston, ATF, NEMLEC SWAT, K9 units and the State Police Air Wing conducted coordinated searches.
• Lowell police later reported no evidence of shots fired and said it was not an active shooter incident, and normal campus operations resumed.
• Authorities obtained the circulating video for review and asked the public to avoid the area during the search and to report tips to 911.