BREAKING: Anonymous Threat Triggers Lockdowns At The University Of Alabama
The University of Alabama is in the midst of a major lockdown at the moment following threats allegedly published on a sorority’s bid day video on YouTube.
According to the student newspaper, campus police have placed the all-girls Tutwiler Hall dormitory on lockdown and have told residents of sorority row to remain inside of their houses until further notice.
This is the threat that allegedly started it all:
BREAKING: Police are on Sorority Row and outside Tutwiler following anonymous emailed threats of gun violence. Updates to follow.
— The Crimson White (@TheCrimsonWhite) September 22, 2014
BREAKING: Police are surrounding the Tutwiler dormitory and have the building on lockdown. No residents are being allowed in.
— The Crimson White (@TheCrimsonWhite) September 22, 2014
BREAKING: Police are telling girls who live on Sorority Row not to leave their houses.
— The Crimson White (@TheCrimsonWhite) September 22, 2014
BREAKING: Police have set up a perimeter around Tutwiler following anonymous threats of gun violence sent to UA students.
— The Crimson White (@TheCrimsonWhite) September 22, 2014
The anonymous threat sent to students was sent under the pen name of the fictional character Arthur Pendragon.
— The Crimson White (@TheCrimsonWhite) September 22, 2014
BREAKING: Police have a perimeter set up outside of Tutwiler dorm following anonymous threats of gun violence. pic.twitter.com/YsKHW4kZl8
— The Crimson White (@TheCrimsonWhite) September 22, 2014
Tutwiler Hall, an all-girls dorm, is currently surrounded by UAPD. pic.twitter.com/a3L0teKu3k
— CW Photography (@TheCWPhotos) September 22, 2014
UAPD responded to reports of individuals with firearms at @UATutwiler. Officers thoroughly searched the building; no weapons or were found.
— The Univ. of Alabama (@UofAlabama) September 22, 2014
All reports are unconfirmed. We will update this article as the situation unfolds.
The university sent the following email to students.
Update from the University: pic.twitter.com/nY8GzdlVH6
— The Crimson White (@TheCrimsonWhite) September 22, 2014
According to a campus radio station, all immediate threats appear to have been cleared by police.
Threat, if there ever was one is over on campus. No current threat. Worth repeating.
— Capstone News Now (@CapstoneNewsNow) September 22, 2014
Image via University of Alabama
Someone didn’t get a bid…
11 years ago at 9:10 amI hope this guy was just fucking around to be funny and then goes to a party and gets yakked on repeatedly by a bunch of drunk as fuck sorority girls until he smells like strawberry burnettes and cries.
11 years ago at 9:17 amWhat a piece of shit. Be safe Bama
11 years ago at 9:33 amHave a friend who goes to Bama and she said there was also a fraternity making pledges have sex last night even if it was rape.
11 years ago at 10:30 amLambda Chi
11 years ago at 10:55 amAs a minority this guy can gladly eat a bowl of dicks
11 years ago at 10:32 amSocial Justice Warrior goon gone postal.
I can see the news headlines now: “Troubled freedom fighter kills 5 privileged white males in campus shooting spree; how we could have prevented this by checking our privilege.”
Step it up, White Man. Welcome to the new normal.
11 years ago at 11:00 amWhat an idiot… Feel a TAR21 going through your body. Anybody that actually knows about weapons would know that you can’t throw an assault rifle through someone. No wonder the cops were so quick to clear the threat, someone so stupid clearly doesn’t know the ass end of a round from the muzzle
11 years ago at 11:28 amI know that as soon as this came out last night our risk manager shot an email to the pledges telling them not to wear their pins until further notice… the first decent thing a RM chair has ever done.
11 years ago at 12:16 pmYou know how scared a university is when they take a fucking YouTube comment seriously. What a joke of a school. Major bluff and they fell for it. The person obviously wanted to scare people and they succeeded.
11 years ago at 12:55 pmUGA also had a gun threat followed up by a bomb threat sent in by some chick on Friday. The whole campus–and the whole town, apparently–went on lockdown until the arrest was made.
11 years ago at 1:36 pm