Approximate reconstructionReconstructed from the Salt Lake Tribune's account of an ARUP Laboratories employee describing an internal intercom announcement12 chars
Code Purple.
This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.
'Code Purple' was ARUP Laboratories' own internal lockdown code, announced over the building's intercom system, not a University of Utah campus-wide alert; no campus-wide text, email, or siren alert for this incident could be independently confirmed in any available source
The Salt Lake Tribune reported the announcement came around 5:10 PM MST, close behind the shooting itself, and was lifted around 5:50 PM MST when employees began exiting the building
ARUP Laboratories sits on University-owned land at the University of Utah's Research Park but is a separately incorporated, University-affiliated nonprofit reference lab with its own internal notification protocol distinct from the university's broader alert systems
An earlier version of this record incorrectly attributed a campus-wide 'shots fired' shelter-in-place alert to this incident, based on a news URL that on closer review describes an unrelated October 2017 shooting near Red Butte Canyon; that claim has been removed