A search is underway on Northwestern's Chicago campus for a suspect who fled a traffic stop and ran into Morton Medical Research Building.
CHICAGO -- An"active threat" on Northwestern University's Chicago campus is over after a suspect who fled a traffic stop was arrested in a campus building.
A text alert sent to staff and students Monday afternoon warned them to"run, hide, fight,""take proper shelter" and"lock and/or barricade doors." The alert was sent out after a suspect ran onto campus after Chicago police attempted to make a traffic stop near Lake Shore Drive and Chicago Avenue around 1:30 p.m.
The suspect fled the vehicle and was last seen in the Morton Medical Research Building on the university's campus in Gold Coast, according to campus officials. At 2:20 p.m., Northwestern tweeted that the"active threat" on campus had ended, saying the suspect was apprehending in the basement of the Ward Building.
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