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WSU
Bomb threat, April 25, 2024
AI-generated · every claim is source-linkedConfirmed HoaxDetermined to be a hoax. The institutional response is documented because it reveals how the alert system performed under a perceived real threat.
Around 10:00 PM CDT on April 25, 2024, Wichita State University Police received a bomb threat call indicating explosives at Wallace Hall and the Starbucks on 21st Street. The all-clear came at approximately 12:45 AM CDT on April 26. The ShockerAlert system was activated and both buildings were evacuated. University police completed a visual search and found no devices. The threat was suspected to be not credible but all precautions were taken.
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UPDATE: UNIVERSITY POLICE ISSUED AN ALL-CLEAR AT 12:45 A.M. APRIL 26
At around 10 p.m. this evening, April 25, 2024, a call was made to Wichita State University Police indicating the presence of a bomb on WSU’s campus at Wallace Hall and the Starbucks on 21st Street. University police completed a visual search of both premises, and no devices were located. The Wichita Police Department has been alerted, and teams have set up a perimeter and are at the scene conducting a search.
The WSU campus community has been alerted of the reported threat through the RAVE system. All individuals are asked to evacuate and stay away from these areas until an all-clear is issued.
At this time, police suspect the threat is not credible but are taking every precaution to ensure campus safety.
WSU will continue to update the campus community as more information is available.
Full official WSU community notice recovered from wichita.edu (includes all-clear banner and contemporaneous threat body).
University Police completed visual searches of both premises and confirmed no explosive devices were present.
Supervisor rule-0 audit (2026-07-18): demoted from isVerbatimConfirmed:true -- the captured text is third-person recap prose from a press-release page (headline banner plus past-tense narration, including the self-referential line that the campus 'has been alerted... through the RAVE system' as an already-completed separate event), not the transmitted RAVE/ShockerAlert message itself.
Verbatim text confirmed from cited source page in PR7.
Context
Background
On April 25, 2024, Wichita State University Police received a call indicating the presence of a bomb at Wallace Hall and the Starbucks on 21st Street. The ShockerAlert system was activated and both buildings were evacuated as a precaution. The university's official news release confirmed that police completed visual searches of both premises and no devices were located. While police suspected the threat was not credible, all precautions were taken to ensure campus safety. The Sunflower student newspaper later reported on a separate 2025 incident where a 'suspicious device' near campus turned out to be a crashed homemade drone, further illustrating the range of threat reports WSU has managed. KAKE News confirmed students were allowed back into campus buildings after the all-clear.
Analysis
Key Findings
The dual-target bomb threat (academic building plus commercial establishment) was unusual and required coordinated evacuation and search of two separate locations
WSU's official news release provided transparent communication about the threat investigation and resolution
The incident was one of multiple bomb threat hoaxes at Kansas universities during 2024-2025
Outcome
University Police searched both locations and found no explosive devices. The all-clear was issued and normal campus operations resumed. The threat was suspected to be not credible.
Provenance
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Cite this case
Campus Alert Archive. "Wichita State University: Bomb threat, April 25, 2024." Incident of April 25, 2024. Added April 2026; last updated July 2026. https://campusalertarchive.com/case/wichita-state-university-bomb-threat-2024-04-25/
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Added April 2026Updated July 2026Via ingestion