Police clear Pitt’s Hillman Library after receiving hoax calls reporting potential lively shooter

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Police have cleared the Hillman Library on the College of Pittsburgh campus after receiving hoax calls of a potential lively shooter.

Pittsburgh Public Security officers say that after officers have been referred to as to the campus to research, they discovered no proof of an lively shooter and located no victims.

Officers say the constructing has been safely cleared and that college students can return to the library to retrieve their private objects.

A Pittsburgh Public Security spokesperson says {that a} Pittsburgh Police officer who responded to the library throughout the incident fired pictures right into a locked door in order that they may get into the constructing to clear any potential menace.

KDKA’s information crew on the scene witnessed bullet holes contained in the door the place the pictures have been fired.

College of Pittsburgh officers say that the calls reporting the lively shooter conditions have been unfounded and Pitt Police are investigating the supply of the hoax calls.

Lower than two weeks in the past, quite a few police businesses swarmed the town’s Oakland neighborhood close to Pitt’s campus after hoax lively shooter calls have been reported at Central Catholic and Oakland Catholic high schools.

It is unclear if there may be any connection between the hoax calls.

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