No active threat at UNT’s Health Science Center in Fort Worth - The Dallas Morning News

The lockdown astatine a University of North Texas field successful Fort Worth due to the fact that of a “potential for violence” was lifted Wednesday day aft constabulary accidental they recovered a idiosyncratic of interest, but nary progressive threat.

The school’s Health Science Center, successful the 3500 artifact of Camp Bowie Boulevard, adjacent Montgomery Street, announced the lockdown astir 12:40 p.m.

Buddy Calzada, a Fort Worth constabulary spokesman, said the section had identified a “person of interest” astir 2:15 p.m., but confirmed determination was nary progressive menace to the campus. The assemblage said students and unit could “return to mean activities.”

Fort Worth constabulary initially said they were assisting the university’s constabulary section with “a imaginable idiosyncratic with a limb connected campus” but did not supply immoderate further details. A constabulary telephone log shows the section was notified of the incidental conscionable earlier 12:40 p.m.

Footage from a quality chopper showed at slightest 2 twelve law-enforcement vehicles lining adjacent streets, and aggregate officers with ballistic shields, helmets and rifles were seen lasting connected the sidewalk.

The Health Science Center, located westbound of downtown Fort Worth, is an world aesculapian halfway that “provides patient-centered care” to radical successful Tarrant County, according to the university’s website. The aesculapian schoolhouse enrolls astir 2,500 students and has astir 1,400 module and staff.

The information alert noted the enactment was adjacent the campus’ Interdisciplinary Research and Education Building, which houses probe laboratories, classrooms and different shared spaces for students.