{
  "id": "2024-10-09-norfolk-state-university-brambleton-avenue-shooting",
  "slug": "norfolk-state-university-brambleton-avenue-shooting-2024-10-09",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Norfolk State University",
    "shortName": "NSU",
    "state": "VA",
    "type": "hbcu",
    "alertSystemName": "NSU Alerts / Rave",
    "enrollment": 5800
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2024-10-09",
    "type": "shooting",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "under-investigation",
    "headline": "A shooting victim is found near the light rail on Brambleton Avenue",
    "headlinePublic": "A shooting victim is found near the light rail on Brambleton Avenue",
    "summary": "Norfolk State police [posted an emergency alert](https://www.nsu.edu/Announcements/Archive) at 12:17 p.m. on Oct. 9, 2024, after a shooting victim was found in the 1800 block of Brambleton Avenue near the light rail. The victim was taken to the hospital. The notice says to avoid the area.",
    "outcome": "Off campus. Investigation ongoing. No further details in the notice."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "October 09, 2024, 12:17 p.m. Eastern. The notice has minutes and no seconds.",
      "channel": "website",
      "verbatimText": "October 09, 2024 | 12:17 p.m.\nOff-Campus Shooting\nAt approximately 11:17 a.m. today, the Norfolk State University Police Department, in collaboration with the Norfolk Police Department, responded to a report of a shooting victim in the 1800 block of Brambleton Avenue near the light rail. The victim was transported to the hospital. This is an off-campus event, and the investigation is ongoing, and no further details are available at this time. Please avoid the area.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.nsu.edu/Announcements/Archive",
      "sourceDescription": "NSU emergency alerts archive: Off-Campus Shooting, October 09, 2024",
      "annotations": [
        "Dual read 2026-10-12. Two curls of the announcements archive differed in session bytes. The Off-Campus Shooting notice, extracted the same way from both, is 469 characters, sha256 05c8dc024a670fd3393ac77e91ef717b7473f67ae2701c9b2a34ad5d314beb2b.",
        "The notice sits in the Emergency Alerts Archives section. It is not the October 21 Madison Avenue shooting."
      ],
      "characterCount": 469
    }
  ],
  "context": "The notice is the Oct. 9, 2024 entry in the [NSU emergency alerts archive](https://www.nsu.edu/Announcements/Archive). It tells people to avoid the 1800 block of Brambleton Avenue.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "A shooting victim in the 1800 block of Brambleton Avenue was taken to the hospital.",
    "The notice says to avoid the area."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "NSU emergency alerts archive, Off-Campus Shooting October 09, 2024",
      "url": "https://www.nsu.edu/Announcements/Archive",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-10-12",
      "archiveUrl": null,
      "archiveNotes": "SPN not attempted at 07:10Z"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "hbcu",
    "virginia",
    "norfolk-state",
    "shooting",
    "emergency-notification"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-10-12",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-10-12",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}