INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A faculty member at the University of North Carolina was shot dead in a shooting on campus on Monday, officials said, adding a suspect was
arrested and the threat was cleared by late afternoon, Reuters reported.&I&m devastated the UNC (University of North Carolina) community
lost a faculty member in an act of violence on campus,& the institution&s chancellor, Kevin Guskiewicz, said in a statement.Police were
notified of shots being fired at the Chapel Hill, North Carolina, campus early Monday afternoon, the chancellor said
He added the suspect was apprehended and taken into custody.Police issued an &all clear& for the campus around two hours later and said
there was no further immediate threat
During the stand-off, there was heavy police presence around the campus, media footage from the scene showed.According to Reuters police had
earlier released the male suspect&s image on X, formerly called Twitter, when he was not yet in custody and described him as a &person of
interest in today&s armed and dangerous person situation.&The authorities did not reveal the identities of the deceased faculty member and
the suspect.&In response, we have canceled classes and all campus events for the rest of the day on Monday, Aug
29,& the chancellor added.The university has a student population of about 32,000, along with about 4,100 faculty and 9,000 staff members,
read the report.North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper said earlier on Monday he had &pledged all state resources needed& to protect the
university campus.The university had asked those on campus to stay sheltered in place for much of the afternoon while the suspect was still
The shooting took place in the campus& Caudill Laboratories.The post University of North Carolina faculty member killed in campus shooting
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