{
  "id": "2025-11-21-everett-community-college-firearm-scare-lockdown",
  "slug": "everett-community-college-firearm-scare-lockdown-2025-11-21",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Everett Community College",
    "shortName": "EvCC",
    "state": "WA",
    "type": "community-college",
    "alertSystemName": "EvCC Alert",
    "enrollment": 19000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-11-21",
    "type": "police-activity",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "headline": "Police activity, November 21, 2025",
    "summary": "On Friday, November 21, 2025, [Everett Community College went into a full lockdown at 12:57 p.m. PST after Everett Police responded to a disturbance involving a firearm near, but not on, the campus](https://myeverettnews.com/2025/11/21/firearm-scare-at-everett-community-college-resulted-in-a-short-lockdown/). The lockdown was brief, ending by 1:11 p.m. PST, and the college said that at no time were students or staff in harm's way.",
    "outcome": "Everett Police responded to a firearm disturbance near the campus; the brief lockdown ended at 1:11 p.m. PST. The college reported no students or staff were ever in harm's way.",
    "resolution": "under-investigation"
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2025-11-21T12:57:00-08:00",
      "channel": "sms",
      "verbatimText": "",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": false,
      "sourceDescription": "Reconstructed from My Everett News and Everett Police; the 12:57 p.m. lockdown start is reported there",
      "annotations": []
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "all-clear",
      "timestamp": "2025-11-21T13:11:00-08:00",
      "channel": "sms",
      "verbatimText": "",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": false,
      "sourceDescription": "Reconstructed from My Everett News; the 1:11 p.m. all-clear is reported there",
      "annotations": []
    },
    {
      "sequence": 3,
      "type": "update",
      "timestampApprox": "November 21, 2025",
      "channel": "facebook",
      "verbatimText": "ALERT: A lockdown was initiated at Everett Community College due to reports of a disturbance involving a firearm nearby, but not on, the campus. Police have responded and secured the scene. The lockdown has been lifted.",
      "characterCount": 219,
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/EverettPoliceWA/photos/1294897892682337/",
      "sourceDescription": "@EverettPoliceWA Facebook (verbatim lockdown alert)",
      "annotations": [
        "Exact text from Everett Police Department official Facebook post about EvCC lockdown for nearby firearm disturbance.",
        "Law-enforcement official channel; not a campus SMS reconstruction."
      ],
      "confidence": "high",
      "archiveUrl": null,
      "lastUpdated": "2026-07-18"
    }
  ],
  "context": "Everett Community College is in Everett, Washington, north of Seattle. On November 21, 2025, [My Everett News reported the college went into a full lockdown at 12:57 p.m. PST after Everett Police responded to a disturbance involving a firearm nearby, but not on, the campus](https://myeverettnews.com/2025/11/21/firearm-scare-at-everett-community-college-resulted-in-a-short-lockdown/), with the lockdown ending by 1:11 p.m. PST. An [Everett Police Department post confirmed a lockdown was initiated at the college due to reports of a person with a weapon in the area](https://www.facebook.com/EverettPoliceWA/photos/1294897892682337/). The college stated that at no time were students or staff in harm's way. This brief, decisive lockdown contrasts sharply with EvCC's [May 2022 emailed-threat lockdown](https://mynorthwest.com/3464867/threat-everett-community-college-lockdown/), part of a wave of threats that hit several Washington colleges that week, showing how the same institution faces very different alert scenarios over time.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "EvCC chose a full lockdown for an off-campus firearm disturbance, then lifted it after only about 14 minutes once police resolved the activity",
    "Precise timestamps (12:57 p.m. lockdown, 1:11 p.m. all-clear PST) make this a clean example of a tightly bounded precautionary lockdown",
    "The college distinguished a near-campus police response from an on-campus threat, stating no one was ever in harm's way"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Firearm Scare at Everett Community College Resulted in a Short Lockdown - My Everett News",
      "url": "https://myeverettnews.com/2025/11/21/firearm-scare-at-everett-community-college-resulted-in-a-short-lockdown/",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Everett Police Department lockdown alert post",
      "url": "https://www.facebook.com/EverettPoliceWA/photos/1294897892682337/",
      "type": "official-social"
    },
    {
      "title": "Unspecified 'threat' forces Everett Community College into lockdown (May 2022) - MyNorthwest",
      "url": "https://mynorthwest.com/3464867/threat-everett-community-college-lockdown/",
      "type": "local-media"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "police-activity",
    "lockdown",
    "firearm",
    "washington",
    "community-college",
    "everett",
    "off-campus-threat"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-05-29",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-18",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}