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Two Armed Robbery Suspects on the Loose Send SLCC's Taylorsville Campus Into a One-Hour Shelter-in-Place

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On Wednesday, August 5, 2020, Salt Lake Community College's Taylorsville Redwood campus was placed under a shelter-in-place around 1:30 p.m. MDT while Unified police searched for two armed robbery suspects considered armed and dangerous after a robbery at a nearby off-campus business. The order was lifted about an hour later, near 2:30 p.m. MDT, when police cleared their search.

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Institution
Salt Lake Community College
Community College · UT
~26,000 studentsSLCC Alert
Confirmed Timeline

Alert Sequence

2 messages in sequence

Some alert texts below are approximate reconstructions from news coverage, not confirmed verbatim transcripts. Reconstructed texts are shown in italic with a dashed border. Verified verbatim texts have a solid border and are marked accordingly.

INITIAL ALERTSMS
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SLCC ALERT: SHELTER IN PLACE at the Taylorsville Redwood Campus. Police are searching for two armed and dangerous robbery suspects in the area. Stay inside, lock doors and await further instructions. Do not approach anyone matching the description.

This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.

The robbery itself occurred at a business off campus; the shelter-in-place was driven by the possibility that the fleeing suspects had moved into the campus area.
Reconstructed wording; coverage confirms the shelter-in-place and the two-suspect description but did not publish the exact SLCC alert text.
ALL CLEARSMS
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SLCC ALERT: The shelter-in-place at the Taylorsville Redwood Campus has been LIFTED. Police have concluded their search of the area. Normal activities may resume. The investigation continues off campus.

This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.

The all-clear came after police stopped their search without locating the suspects on campus, lifting the order about an hour after it began.
Reconstructed wording; the lift time and the continuing off-campus investigation are drawn directly from KSL NewsRadio's account.
Context

Background

Salt Lake Community College's Taylorsville Redwood campus is the system's largest, in Taylorsville, Utah. On August 5, 2020, KSL.com reported a shelter-in-place was ordered around 1:30 p.m. MDT and lifted about an hour later while Unified police searched for two armed robbery suspects after a robbery at a nearby business. FOX 13 reported the suspects were described as two white men in their 20s, considered armed and dangerous, one last seen in the vicinity of 2050 West Bowling Drive. KSL NewsRadio reported police later stopped their search and the shelter-in-place was lifted. This case predates SLCC's separate 2026 bomb-threat scare and documents how a nearby commercial robbery can pull a community college into a precautionary shelter-in-place.
Analysis

Key Findings

An off-campus armed robbery and the resulting suspect search drove a roughly one-hour shelter-in-place at SLCC's largest campus
Police described the suspects as armed and dangerous, justifying the shelter-in-place even though no robbery occurred on campus
The all-clear was issued when police ended their search rather than when suspects were caught — the threat was deemed cleared from campus, not resolved
Outcome
Police cleared their search for the two suspects without locating them on campus; the shelter-in-place was lifted after about an hour. The robbery investigation continued off campus. No campus injuries were reported.
Provenance

Sources

  1. News
    Shelter-in-place order lifted at SLCC Taylorsville; police investigate armed robbery nearby - KSL.com
    ksl.com
  2. News
    Police stop search for armed robbery suspects, SLCC shelter in place lifted - KSL NewsRadio
    kslnewsradio.com
  3. News
    Shelter in place lifted at SLCC Taylorsville campus - FOX 13 Now
    fox13now.com
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Added May 2026Updated May 2026Via ingestion