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Community advised to stay indoors for the night after off-campus shooting injures 12

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After a shooting near Perry and Manatee Streets injured 12 people following Florida A&M University's homecoming game on Saturday, October 24, 2026, Florida State University advised its students, faculty and staff in the Tallahassee area to stay indoors for the rest of the night as a precaution, saying there was no indication any of its community members were involved. @FSUAlert posted the Emergency Message at 10:00 PM EDT.

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Florida State University
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INITIAL ALERTTwitter/X
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This is an Emergency Message for the Florida State University Tallahassee Campus. Florida State University is aware of reports of an off-campus shooting near Bragg Stadium on the FAMU campus in Tallahassee earlier this evening (Sat. Oct 24). At this t https://t.co/M1KzwIWsgV
Read twice on 2026-11-09 (X search, then an independent post-id lookup); the two texts matched. HTML entities decoded; t.co links kept as posted.
The X text is cut off at "At this t" by the Everbridge auto-post, which keeps the first part of the message and appends a link to manager.everbridge.net/pub/2809837935217264. That page is JavaScript-only and returned no text, so the rest of the message is not recorded.
A search summary of Tallahassee Democrat coverage rendered the continuation as saying there was no indication FSU community members were involved and advising people in the Tallahassee area to remain indoors that evening; that wording is unconfirmed.
Posted 10:00 PM EDT, matching the SubX.News time; about two hours after the shooting and three minutes after FAMU's first X post.
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This is an Emergency Message for the Florida State University Tallahassee Campus. Florida State University is aware of reports of an off-campus shooting near Bragg Stadium on the FAMU campus in Tallahassee earlier this evening (Sat. Oct 24). At this t https://t.co/M1KzwIWsgV

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About this analysis
Context

Background

NBC News reports that 12 people, 11 of them by gunfire, were hurt in a shooting near Perry and Manatee Streets just before 8:00 PM EDT on Saturday, October 24, 2026, hours after Florida A&M's homecoming game at Bragg Memorial Stadium, and that Florida State, about a mile away, advised students, faculty and staff in the Tallahassee area to remain indoors as a precaution while saying there was no indication its people were involved. A SubX.News post made at 11:48 PM EDT says FSU issued the alert at 10:00 PM EDT. Some coverage attributes similar remain-indoors wording to FAMU's own alert, so the attribution here follows the reports that name Florida State. FAMU's first post on the shooting, on its own X account, came at 9:57 PM EDT; FAMU's alerts are documented in their own case. Tallahassee police announced an arrest at 7:33 AM EDT on October 26, 2026, describing the shooting as occurring at approximately 8 p.m. near Perry and Manatee streets. The opening of the FSU message was double-read from @FSUAlert on 2026-11-09; the X auto-post is truncated and the linked Everbridge page did not render, so the full text is still to be recovered. The person arrested is deliberately not named here.
Analysis

Key Findings

A second university issued its own protective instruction for an off-campus shooting at a neighboring campus, extending it to its entire city community.
The reported FSU alert and FAMU's first X post came within minutes of each other, about two hours after the shooting.
Outcome
No deaths were reported among the 12 people hurt. Tallahassee police announced an arrest on the morning of October 26, 2026. FSU said there was no indication its students, faculty or staff were involved.
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Campus Alert Archive. "Florida State University: Community advised to stay indoors for the night after off-campus shooting injures 12." Incident of October 24, 2026. Added November 2026. https://campusalertarchive.com/case/florida-state-university-perry-street-shooting-precautionary-remain-indoors-2026-10-24/

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Added November 2026Updated November 2026Via ingestion