JUST IN: A lockdown at Northwestern University’s Chicago campus has been lifted Monday afternoon after police chased a carjacking suspect into a medical building.
"The suspect in this investigation has been taken into custody," police spokesman Thomas Ahern wrote on Twitter around 2:20 p.m.
The suspect was arrested in the basement of the Ward Building at 303 E. Chicago Ave., Northwestern University wrote in a campus alert.About an hour earlier, the suspect ran into the Morton Medical Research Building at 310 E. Superior St. after Chicago police officers tried to pull over a vehicle near DuSable Lake Shore Drive and Chicago Avenue at 1:30 p.m., the university said in an earlier alert.
"There is an active threat event on the Chicago Campus. Run, Hide, Fight. Take proper shelter. Lock and/or barricade doors," the university wrote.Chicago police had no other immediate comment.
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