UC Berkeley Lifts Shelter-in-Place Order After Threat Resolved
UC Berkeley Shuts Down as Police Investigate Campus Threat
(Bloomberg) -- The University of California, Berkeley, lifted a shelter-in-place order following a threat that led to canceled classes and a lockdown of buildings Thursday.
The university police department tweeted at 2 p.m. local time that the situation had been resolved, ending a roughly four-and-a-half-hour shutdown of the campus. Police had earlier said they were searching for a person who may be looking to harm specific individuals.
In-person classes remained canceled for the day, according to an alert on the university’s website. No further details were given about the threat or how it was resolved.
UC Berkeley, just east of San Francisco Bay, has about 45,000 students. The shutdown comes as two other Bay Area universities are hosting prominent guests Thursday: Vice President Kamala Harris was scheduled to visit the University of California, San Francisco, while former President Barack Obama appeared at Stanford University to speak about disinformation.
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