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Carolina Alert: An active shooter has been reported on the University of South Carolina campus at the Arnold School of Public Health on Assembly Street near College Street. Stay indoors until further notice.
This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.
Sent as gunfire was reported inside the Arnold School of Public Health building, this was a real-time shelter order rather than a post-hoc notification, consistent with the active, unresolved nature of the threat at the moment it was issued
The alert's 'active shooter' framing reflected what officers knew in the first minutes: shots fired inside an occupied academic building, with the shooter's identity, motive, and relationship to the victim still unknown
Carolina Alert lifted the notice roughly an hour later after officers determined the shooter and victim were the only two people in the room and there was no continuing threat to the wider campus