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Active shooter at University of South Carolina library (false alarm?)

Posted on 8/24/25 at 6:06 pm
Posted by CarolinaGamecock99
Member since Apr 2015
24434 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 6:06 pm

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Urgent Carolina Alert: Active Shooter at Thomas Cooper Library on Columbia campus. Subject reported as 6ft white male with black pants. sc.edu/carolinaalert.


Awesome start to the year smh
This post was edited on 8/24/25 at 6:17 pm
Posted by O
Mandeville
Member since Oct 2011
6733 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 6:10 pm to
Praying for students and staff. What a nightmare.
Posted by tigerinthebueche
Member since Oct 2010
37668 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 6:11 pm to
White male or white hispanic male? Or black man the press is reporting as white?
Posted by Bama and Beer
Baldwin Co, AL
Member since Oct 2010
84482 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 6:13 pm to
He's pretty damn white carrying an umbrella

This post was edited on 8/24/25 at 6:20 pm
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
128718 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 6:14 pm to
It says he is running but he is calmly walking?
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
72975 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 6:16 pm to
Apparently a hoax

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People who call police to falsely report an active shooter need to spend time in jail.

It’s so gross
This post was edited on 8/24/25 at 6:17 pm
Posted by Scruffy
Kansas City
Member since Jul 2011
76464 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 6:18 pm to
That video doesn’t show anything.

Umbrella?

Saw another video and it looks like an umbrella.

People are retarded.
This post was edited on 8/24/25 at 6:20 pm
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
72975 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 6:20 pm to
Yep,

Some moron saw a student with an umbrella and thought it was a rifle.

Poor kid probably got rushed by all sorts of cops and swat

All because of someone who either is stupid enough to mistake a gun for an umbrella or malicious hoax

Posted by TT9
Global warming
Member since Sep 2008
90108 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 6:21 pm to
X is so full of fake trash these days.
Posted by GeorgeTheGreek
Sparta, Greece
Member since Mar 2008
68471 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 6:24 pm to
Been lots of false alarms regarding University shootings this week. Wonder what’s up?
Posted by Tigerbait357
Member since Jun 2011
70759 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 6:31 pm to
There are much better camera angles which show it to be an obvious umbrella
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Posted by CarolinaGamecock99
Member since Apr 2015
24434 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 6:32 pm to
How does a university send out a active shooter alert over a fricking umbrella
Posted by tigerinthebueche
Member since Oct 2010
37668 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 6:34 pm to
“Out of an abundance of caution…”
Posted by TT9
Global warming
Member since Sep 2008
90108 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 6:35 pm to
No idea
Posted by Tigerbait357
Member since Jun 2011
70759 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 6:37 pm to
quote:

How does a university send out a active shooter alert over a fricking umbrella


Guessing someone assumed the umbrella was a gun from a distance (paranoid)

They call campus police and send out an alert to be safe. I don’t think SC has actually confirmed any actual shooter Or shooting incident
Posted by CarolinaGamecock99
Member since Apr 2015
24434 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 6:44 pm to
quote:

SC has actually confirmed any actual shooter Or shooting incident

The university sent out 3 different messages saying active shooter at the Thomas cooper library. Just a baffling situation
This post was edited on 8/24/25 at 6:45 pm
Posted by Boomdaddy65201
BoCoMo
Member since Mar 2020
4068 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 7:08 pm to
quote:

How does a university send out a active shooter alert over a fricking umbrella


MU starts classes tomorrow, last Tuesday as incoming freshmen with parents in tow were moving in, a campus wide active shooter text was dropped. One of the campus facilities vehicles being used to direct traffic…blew a tire
This post was edited on 8/24/25 at 7:09 pm
Posted by TigersSEC2010
Warren, Michigan
Member since Jan 2010
38139 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 7:09 pm to
Anyone with an ounce of knowledge of firearms can watch that video and tell you it’s not a rifle. The first clue is that scrawny dude isn’t carrying any rifle with one hand like that.
Posted by Lsuhoohoo
Member since Sep 2007
101849 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 8:01 pm to
Posted by LSUtoBOOT
Member since Aug 2012
18968 posts
Posted on 8/24/25 at 8:04 pm to
quote:

Active shooter at University of South Carolina library (false alarm?)

Turns out they don’t have a library?
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