University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Students Live Document Shelter In Place In Second Shooting Threat In Recent Weeks

Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are sharing haunting videos of the classrooms and campus areas sheltering in place from an active shooter threat. This is the second threat to strike the campus in recent weeks, with the last resulting in a professor’s death.

Student journalists on campus documented the last campus shooter in the same way. The coverage marks a change in how mass shootings could be prosecuted going forward. In the decades since mass shooting rates began to rise, police often solely had physical evidence and security footage to rely on. Now, first person accounts from survivors iPhones depict the terror inflicted upon the observer.

David Hogg, a recent graduate of Harvard University and co-founder of March For Our Lives, brought attention to the student’s documentation of today’s events. Hogg, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, has turned his life’s purpose to gun control activism. The activist appeared with a number of UNC students at the North Carolina state capitol yesterday to urge the state government to turn their attention towards tighter gun control.

Social Media Accounts From Chapel Hill

Students are sharing statements from hiding regarding the absurd nature of the situation.

Students, professors, and other university staff are sharing eerie videos of the shelter in place sirens blaring on an otherwise silent campus.

North Carolina state Governor Roy Cooper is now urging Republican state legislators to listen to the student’s concerns, as campus gun violence in the state has seen a disturbing uptick recently.

Several on campus at the time of today’s shooting continue to live tweet information. One X user claimed it took place at the campus bagel shop.

Another student claimed that rumors circulating on campus alleged the threat was armed, while others claimed the person only had a knife. The student claimed that an all clear was then issued without an explanation of what took place.

Amid the first-person accounts, onlookers continue to call for nationwide gun control.

Some critics felt that the students offering live updates were putting themselves at risk. The students begged to differ, instead offering that their live updates helped others stay informed and put a face to the victims of mass shootings.

Another student shared a poem surrounding the emotional turmoil of the survivor’s guilt associated with surviving the shooting.

The university is yet to provide a reason for the lockdown, and did not specify whether the alleged threat was armed.

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