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Twelve injured in shooting after homecoming game; university posts avoid-area notices

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Confirmed Threat

A shooting at Perry and Manatee Streets just before 8:00 PM EDT on Saturday, October 24, 2026, near Bragg Memorial Stadium after FAMU's homecoming game, injured 12 people, six of them minors. FAMU's official X account relayed Tallahassee police's request to avoid the area at 9:57 PM EDT and posted a second avoid-the-area notice at 11:12 PM EDT; local coverage says the university placed the incident off campus.

Alerts
2
Response
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Killed
0
Injured
12
Institution
Florida A&M University
Hbcu · FL
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Documented Timeline

Alert Sequence

2 messages in sequence · 2 verified verbatim

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INITIAL ALERTTwitter/X
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TPD is investigating a shooting on Perry Street. The number of victims and extent of injuries are unknown. Please avoid the area while officers investigate. Updates will be shared as more information becomes available.
Read 2026-10-26 from the X post's page title as returned by a search tool: separate searches returned identical title text, but there was no independent fetch method and no hash, and a title flattens any line breaks in the original post. A dual read by the Grok seat is recommended before archival. Post time decoded from the status ID: 9:57:13 PM EDT on October 24, 2026.
The post relays the Tallahassee Police message (posted on X at 8:44 PM EDT per its status ID) almost word for word, so the university's first post on this account came about 73 minutes after the police post and about two hours after the shooting.
It asks people to avoid the area but gives no street boundary beyond Perry Street and no shelter instruction; local coverage reports a separate FAMU alert that also said to shelter in place if nearby, which these posts do not contain.
FOLLOW-UPTwitter/X+1h 15m
Verified verbatim240 chars
Our hearts are with the victims and everyone affected by tonight’s incident on Perry Street. Please avoid the area as Tallahassee police investigate. Read the University’s statement below and follow official University channels for updates.
Read 2026-10-26 from the X post's page title as returned by a search tool: separate searches returned identical title text, but there was no independent fetch method and no hash, and a title flattens any line breaks in the original post. A dual read by the Grok seat is recommended before archival. Post time decoded from the status ID: 11:12:40 PM EDT on October 24, 2026.
Repeats the avoid-the-area direction as police investigated and points readers to an attached university statement and to official channels, which the post text does not reproduce.
Filed as a follow-up and not an all-clear: it keeps the avoid-the-area direction in place.
Message elements

How the first alert is built

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TPD is investigating a shooting on Perry Street. The number of victims and extent of injuries are unknown. Please avoid the area while officers investigate. Updates will be shared as more information becomes available.

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About this analysis
Context

Background

HBCU Gameday, WCTV and WFSU report that Tallahassee police were called to Perry and Manatee Streets just before 8:00 PM EDT on Saturday, October 24, 2026, after FAMU's homecoming game at Bragg Memorial Stadium, and that 12 people were injured, 11 of them by gunfire. The text of FAMU's two posts on its official X account (9:57 PM EDT and 11:12 PM EDT) was read from the posts' page titles; post times are decoded from the status IDs. WCTV and WFSU additionally report that FAMU's alert told people to avoid the area around Bragg Memorial Stadium and Perry Street or shelter in place if nearby and that the university said the incident was off campus and the campus remained safe; those statements were not found in the X posts and are not entered as alerts because their wording and channel were not retrieved. Chief Lawrence Revell said preliminary information indicated a physical altercation came first. Some outlets date the shooting to October 25; the October 24 date follows the reports that put it on Saturday night after the game.
Analysis

Key Findings

The university's own X account relayed the police avoid-the-area request about 73 minutes after the police post and about two hours after the shooting.
Of 12 people hurt, six were minors, and Tallahassee police tied the shooting to a fight and not to the game.
Outcome
Eleven of the 12 victims were shot, at least three seriously, and no deaths were reported. Tallahassee police said a physical fight preceded the shooting and, as of Sunday morning, had announced no arrests. FAMU said the campus remained safe.
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Campus Alert Archive. "Florida A&M University: Twelve injured in shooting after homecoming game; university posts avoid-area notices." Incident of October 24, 2026. Added October 2026. https://campusalertarchive.com/case/florida-am-university-homecoming-shooting-perry-street-avoid-area-alert-2026-10-24/

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Added October 2026Updated October 2026Via ingestion