URI ends lockdown; says no gun or gunman on campus

Published April 4, 2013 4:00am ET



SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — The University of Rhode Island was under lockdown for about 2? hours Thursday after reports of someone with a gun on its rural South Kingstown campus, but police said an investigation found there was no gunman, weapon or danger at any time.

Rhode Island State Police Capt. Frank Castellone said state police received calls at 11:22 a.m. reporting a person with a gun in a high-rise building that houses several academic departments and classrooms. According to police, a female professor believed she heard someone in her lecture hall say, ‘I’m a good guy and I have a gun.'”

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