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ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) – Washington University issued an alert on Tuesday morning for an armed person on the Danforth Campus. <\/p>\n
On the university\u2019s website<\/a>, an alert was posted at 9:18 a.m. that read, \u201cWashU Alert: Armed person on Danforth Campus. Run, Hide, or Fight. If hide, lock or barricade yourself in a room until further notice. If off campus, stay away. Updates at emergency.washu.edu<\/a> .\u201d <\/p>\n About 15 minutes later, the university updated the alert to read, \u201cPolice are checking buildings in the vicinity of Brookings Hall after receiving reports of a person with a weapon. There is no confirmation of an active shooter, but please remain in place. If you see an armed person, Run, Hide or Fight. Updates at emergency.washu.edu<\/a> .\u201d <\/p>\n Around 9:45 a.m., all alerts were removed from the university\u2019s website. <\/p>\n Five minutes later, a new alert appeared stating that police were still on the scene near Brookings Hall and other Danforth Campus buildings. The alert asked those on campus to remain in place. <\/p>\n First Alert 4 has crews heading to the area and has calls out to multiple law enforcement agencies to gather additional details regarding the alerts. <\/p>\n Copyright 2026 KMOV. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) – Washington University issued an alert on Tuesday morning for an armed person on the Danforth Campus. On the university\u2019s website, an alert was posted at 9:18 a.m. that read, \u201cWashU Alert: Armed person on Danforth Campus. Run, Hide, or Fight. If hide, lock or barricade yourself in a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Washington-University-issues-alert-after-report-of-armed-person.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21679,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21677\/revisions\/21679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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