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Monmouth University Lockdown Order Lifted After Email Made Bomb, Shooting Threats Monmouth University Lockdown Order Lifted After Email Made Bomb, Shooting Threats
Monmouth University Lockdown Order Lifted After Email Made Bomb, Shooting Threats A lockdown order was lifted at Monmouth University after students were asked to shelter in place for several hours as investigators looked into a threat on campus, officials said. The university posted on Facebook about the main campus lockdown at 3:15 a.m. on Tuesday, July 23, as university police and other first responders checked various buildings. West Long Branch's emergency management office said there were no safety concerns outside university property in a Facebook post at 7:20 a.m. Monmouth president Dr. Patrick Leahy posted an update on the university's website after students were…

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by Chris Spiker
News
Barricaded Man Discharging Firearms Taken Into Custody At Evesham Home (UPDATED) Barricaded Man Discharging Firearms Taken Into Custody At Evesham Home (UPDATED)
Barricaded Man Discharging Firearms Taken Into Custody At Evesham Home (Updated) A man barricaded with firearms and discharging the weapons brought a heavy police presence to a home in Evesham Monday morning, June 17. He was taken into custody by 9 a.m., Evesham police said; Officers were at a home on Brookfield Drive as of 7:30 a.m. and all residents near the home were being sheltered in place. The shelter-in-place had been lifted by 9 a.m. Sections of Kettle Run Road and Hopewell Road were closed to traffic. Police were in contact with the local school districts to alter school bus routes in the area. "Our goal is to resolve this situation safely," Chief Walt Mille…

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by Jon Craig & Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Shotgun-Wielding PA Man Kills Wife Of NJ Friend Who Took Him In, Dies Soon After: Authorities Shotgun-Wielding PA Man Kills Wife Of NJ Friend Who Took Him In, Dies Soon After: Authorities
Shotgun-Wielding PA Man Kills Wife Of NJ Friend Who Took Him In, Dies Soon After: Authorities 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: A Pennsylvania man shot and killed the wife of a friend who took him into their northwest New Jersey home, then died of a medical emergency moments after fleeing, authorities said. Cheryl Schilling and her husband, Kevin, ran to an upstairs bedroom and closed the door after Armond Anthony Avitable grabbed a pump-action shotgun during an argument at their home in the Knowlton Township community of Columbia shortly before 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 12, they said. Avitable then kicked open the door and fired two shotgun blasts, both of which wounded the 58-year-old woman, Warren County P…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Sighting Of Gunman At FDU Not Substantiated, Search On For Pair Who Reported It: Police Sighting Of Gunman At FDU Not Substantiated, Search On For Pair Who Reported It: Police
Sighting Of Gunman At FDU Not Substantiated, Search On For Pair Who Reported It: Police UPDATE: FDU's Teaneck Campus briefly went into a shelter-in-place Monday morning following what turned out to be an unsubstantiated report of a man with a gun. Two people walking a dog claimed to have seen the gunman in the Teaneck campus's Northpointe parking lot near the pedestrian footbridge on Monday morning, Dec. 11, Teaneck Police Chief Andrew McGurr said. They told this to another civilian, then continued walking their dog across the Spirit Bridge over the Hackensack River into Hackensack, the chief said. That person then stopped a passing campus security guard, he said. "FDU secur…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Patrol Car, K-9 Stolen In Gloucester County Prompts 'Shelter-In-Place': Police Patrol Car, K-9 Stolen In Gloucester County Prompts 'Shelter-In-Place': Police
Patrol Car, K-9 Stolen In Gloucester County Prompts 'Shelter-In-Place': Police A Harrison Township police car with a K-9 aboard was stolen prompting a "shelter in place" in another Gloucester County community,  authorities said. On Facebook, West Deptford police said there was a suspect but no arrests had been made early Thursday, July 13. The patrol car theft occurred at about 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, July 12, in Paulsboro. The patrol car was later recovered and the K-9 was safe, according to West Deptford Deputy Police Chief Michael Franks. All other questions were referred to the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office. Messages were left at the prosecutor's …

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by Jon Craig
Schools
Curling Iron Mistaken As 'Weapon' Sends Monmouth University Into Panicked Frenzy Curling Iron Mistaken As 'Weapon' Sends Monmouth University Into Panicked Frenzy
Curling Iron Mistaken As 'Weapon' Sends Monmouth University Into Panicked Frenzy The "weapon" that put Monmouth University into a shelter in place and alarming students across campus overnight has been identified as a curling iron, officials said. The hair tool was initially reported as a possible armed suspect with shots fired, prompting the lockdown at the West Long Branch school around 9:15 p.m. on Wednesday, March 22, university officials and law enforcement said. More than four hours later, law enforcement and university officials found the "suspect" was carrying a curling iron. "Detectives were able to utilize video footage and other technology based on the desc…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Camden County Residents 'Shelter-In-Place' For Death Investigation Camden County Residents 'Shelter-In-Place' For Death Investigation
Camden County Residents 'Shelter-In-Place' For Death Investigation Residents of a Camden County town were advised to "shelter-in-place" for a death investigation, according to developing reports and county officials. Police presence was to be expected near Myrtle Lane in Winslow Township "for a few hours," initial reports said at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. No criminal activity was suspected, said Andrew Kramer, a spokesman with the Camden County Prosecutor's Office. Winslow Township police were not immediately available for comment. CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES

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by Jon Craig