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Lockdown lifted at UNTHSC in Fort Worth after camera mistaken for gun

Your Wednesday Afternoon Headlines, November 16th, 2022
Your Wednesday Afternoon Headlines, November 16th, 2022 03:10

FORT WORTH (CBSDW.COM) — The UNT Health and Science Center in Fort Worth was locked down on Wednesday after a camera was misidentified as a gun.

At about 2:15 p.m., police received a report about a person on campus with a gun. The school quickly went into lockdown and told everyone on campus to seek shelter immediately, citing a "potential for violence."

The lockdown was lifted just before 2:30 p.m. 

A UNT spokesperson said that with the help of the Fort Worth Police Department, campus police were able to identify and locate the individual who was initially reported as carrying a gun.

Officers discovered that the item was in fact not a gun, but a camera. 

Nobody was injured in the incident and no arrests were made.

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