Reports of a gunman on campus brought Yale University under a daylong shelter-in-place lockdown order Monday.
The campus-wide lockdown lasted approximately six hours, from 10:50 a.m. until 4:40 p.m., according to the university's emergency management website. The initial report of a gunman near Old Campus, where Yale freshmen are housed, was confirmed in a text alert to the Yale community around 11 a.m., The Yale Daily News reported.
The lockdown concluded with no persons in custody as law enforcement began to assume the initial call had been "an innocent mistake," New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman said at a press conference.
There were no reports of a gun fired or of any injuries on campus. Classes were not in session Monday, and many students had left campus for Yale's weeklong Thanksgiving break.
The lockdown was initiated after an unidentified male placed a 911 callthat lasted between five and 30 seconds on Monday morning from a pay phone near Yale's campus. The caller said that his roommate had a long gun and was on his way to shoot up the Yale campus, The New Haven Independent reported.
Four different SWAT teams were activated. University, state and local police responded, along with the border patrol and agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Police conducted a room-to-room search of the campus starting at 1:45 p.m., when a text alert was sent to the Yale community informing them of the action. Police identified themselves by slipping a Yale ID under the door, a later phone alert told community members.
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