Dalhousie students question university’s response to report of gunman in library

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On Tuesday, Halifax Police said officers responded to a report of “a man with a gun” in the area of the Killam Library on Dalhousie University's campus.

Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.Students at Dalhousie University are looking for answers after a large police presence gathered at the school’s Killam Library on Tuesday after a man with a gun was reportedly spotted in the area.

“We got one and it was kind of jarring, and then one that followed up almost immediately to say, ‘We’re not sure so don’t leave the library’, and then a third one to say nothing was found,” she said.The third alert came at 2:27 p.m. and said the library was not being evacuated, but students were free to leave should they choose, as police continued a precautionary search “in relation to a suspicious phone call.

Ellie Garry-Jones, another Dalhousie student, said she thought the university handled the situation to the best of its ability.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

 

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