{
  "id": "2025-11-13-st-johns-university-bomb-threat",
  "slug": "st-johns-university-bomb-threat-2025-11-13",
  "institution": {
    "name": "St. John's University",
    "shortName": "SJU",
    "state": "NY",
    "type": "private-r2",
    "alertSystemName": "St. John's University Emergency Notification System",
    "enrollment": 21000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-11-13",
    "type": "bomb-threat",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "unfounded",
    "headline": "Bomb threat empties the D'Angelo Center; determined to be unfounded",
    "headlinePublic": "Bomb threat empties the D'Angelo Center; determined to be unfounded",
    "summary": "On November 13, 2025, St. John's University evacuated the [D'Angelo Center (DAC)](https://www.torchonline.com/news/2025/11/11/bomb-threat-reported/) on its Queens campus following a bomb threat received Thursday afternoon. A text alert went out to the campus community at [3:54 p.m. EST instructing people to avoid the area](https://www.torchonline.com/news/2025/11/11/bomb-threat-reported/), and the building was swept by Public Safety in coordination with the NYPD.",
    "outcome": "Investigation by Public Safety and the NYPD found no device. The building was reopened and the university returned to regular operations later that evening.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 0,
      "injured": 0
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2025-11-13T15:54:00-05:00",
      "channel": "sms",
      "verbatimText": "Police Activity Near The D'Angelo Building. Please Avoid The Area.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.torchonline.com/news/2025/11/11/bomb-threat-reported/",
      "sourceDescription": "The Torch (St. John's student newspaper)",
      "annotations": [
        "Sent at 3:54 PM EST on November 13, 2025, by the St. John's University Emergency Notification System",
        "The D'Angelo Center had already been evacuated shortly before this text alert was sent, leaving some students learning of the situation only after they had left the building",
        "The alert is notably terse and uses 'Police Activity' as a euphemism rather than naming the bomb threat directly"
      ],
      "characterCount": 66
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "all-clear",
      "timestampApprox": "Evening of November 13, 2025, after NYPD swept the D'Angelo Center",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": false,
      "sourceDescription": "Reconstructed from The Torch coverage of the all-clear announcement",
      "annotations": []
    }
  ],
  "context": "The D'Angelo Center (DAC) is the central student union and administrative building on the [Queens campus of St. John's University](https://www.stjohns.edu/about), housing dining, student services, and large meeting spaces. The November 13, 2025 bomb threat prompted a swift evacuation and a [text alert from the St. John's Emergency Notification System at 3:54 p.m. EST](https://www.torchonline.com/news/2025/11/11/bomb-threat-reported/) directing the community to avoid the area. The threat came amid a broader pattern of bomb threats and swatting calls targeting US college campuses in fall 2025, including [hoax shooting threats at NYU and other universities](https://nyunews.com/news/2025/09/11/nyu-email-shooting-threat-update/). NYPD bomb-detection units swept the building and found no device. St. John's [Department of Public Safety](https://www.stjohns.edu/my-st-johns/public-safety/emergency-preparedness) maintains a Recent Alerts archive but the public-facing alert page does not include this incident in detail.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Students Return to Normal Activity Following a Bomb Threat Reported At St. John's University (The Torch)",
      "url": "https://www.torchonline.com/news/2025/11/11/bomb-threat-reported/",
      "type": "student-newspaper",
      "accessDate": "2026-05-03"
    },
    {
      "title": "Recent Alerts (St. John's University)",
      "url": "https://www.stjohns.edu/resources/safety/recent-alerts",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-05-03"
    },
    {
      "title": "Emergency Preparedness (St. John's University)",
      "url": "https://www.stjohns.edu/my-st-johns/public-safety/emergency-preparedness",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-05-03"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "medium",
  "tags": [
    "bomb-threat",
    "queens",
    "new-york",
    "private-r2",
    "evacuation",
    "police-activity-language",
    "unfounded",
    "dac"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-05-03",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-05-03",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}