Suspect in custody after University of North Carolina locked down for ‘armed and dangerous person'

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The University of North Carolina has given the “all clear” after a campus lockdown over a report of an armed person. Chapel Hill Police have arrested Mickel Deonte Harris of Durham. He is suspected of confronting an employee at Alpine Bagel Cafe in the student union and threatening the employee with a firearm. A lockdown was in place for more than an hour. Students were told to “go inside now” and avoid windows. University police report that no shots were fired. The UNC community is still recovering from the fatal shooting of a faculty member in a science building about two weeks prior.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has given the “all clear” and arrested a suspect after campus was locked down Wednesday over reports of an armed and dangerous person.

The campus alert system was activated in the early afternoon when police received a 911 call informing them that someone had brandished a weapon in the student union, UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said. The lockdown was in place for more than an hour. Students were told to “go inside now” and avoid windows.

 

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