{
  "id": "2022-10-24-stlcc-forest-park-cvpa-shooting-lockdown",
  "slug": "stlcc-forest-park-cvpa-shooting-lockdown-2022-10-24",
  "institution": {
    "name": "St. Louis Community College–Forest Park",
    "shortName": "STLCC",
    "state": "MO",
    "type": "community-college",
    "alertSystemName": "STLCC Alert",
    "enrollment": 6000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2022-10-24",
    "type": "shelter-in-place",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "headline": "Precautionary lockdown during a fatal shooting at a nearby high school",
    "headlinePublic": "Precautionary lockdown during a fatal shooting at a nearby high school",
    "summary": "On the morning of October 24, 2022, St. Louis Community College's Forest Park campus went on lockdown 'due to an emergency' nearby, with the [lockdown lifted around 8:45 a.m. CDT](https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local-news/lockdown-at-stlcc-forest-park-campus/). The morning coincided with a [fatal shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Visual_and_Performing_Arts_High_School_shooting) on the city's south side, where a former student killed a teacher and a student before being killed by police. The community-college lockdown was a precautionary response amid the citywide alarm.",
    "outcome": "No injuries on the STLCC campus. The lockdown was lifted around 8:45 a.m. CDT. The broader emergency that morning was the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School shooting, in which a 15-year-old student and a teacher were killed and the gunman died after a shootout with police.",
    "resolution": "confirmed-threat"
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2022-10-24T08:11:00-05:00",
      "channel": "twitter-x",
      "verbatimText": "#STLCCALERT: STLCC-Forest Park is on lockdown due to an emergency nearby. If you are on campus, please shelter in place and follow instructions from campus officials. If you're on your way to campus, we ask that you turn around and go home for the time being.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://twitter.com/STLCCForestPark",
      "sourceDescription": "STLCC-Forest Park official Twitter/X account (@STLCCForestPark), tweet posted at 8:11 a.m. CDT on October 24, 2022, as reported by FOX 2 St. Louis",
      "annotations": [
        "Verbatim from the @STLCCForestPark Twitter/X account, posted at 8:11 a.m. CDT on October 24, 2022 as confirmed by FOX 2 St. Louis coverage.",
        "The #STLCCALERT hashtag prefix was the college's standard alert signifier on social media.",
        "The notice did not name the off-campus shooting, framing the situation only as a nearby 'emergency', a common pattern when the threat is adjacent rather than on campus.",
        "The alert explicitly addressed two groups: people already on campus (shelter in place) and people en route (turn around), a two-audience instruction format."
      ],
      "characterCount": 259
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "all-clear",
      "timestampApprox": "Approximately 8:45 a.m. CDT on October 24, 2022",
      "channel": "sms",
      "verbatimText": "",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": false,
      "sourceDescription": "Reconstructed from St. Louis American report that the lockdown was lifted around 8:45 a.m.",
      "annotations": []
    }
  ],
  "context": "On October 24, 2022, a former student entered [Central Visual and Performing Arts High School](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Visual_and_Performing_Arts_High_School_shooting) in St. Louis and opened fire, killing a teacher and a 15-year-old student before he was killed by responding officers. Amid the citywide emergency, St. Louis Community College's Forest Park campus, several miles north of the high school, went on lockdown 'due to an emergency' and then [lifted it around 8:45 a.m. CDT](https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local-news/lockdown-at-stlcc-forest-park-campus/). The college's precautionary shelter shows how a K-12 shooting can ripple outward, prompting nearby higher-education campuses to lock down even when the threat is not on their own property. STLCC also maintains formal [lockdown procedures](https://stlcc.edu/about/police-safety/emergency-procedures/lockdown.aspx) for exactly this kind of external threat.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "The Forest Park lockdown was a precautionary response to an off-campus emergency (the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School shooting) not an on-campus threat",
    "The lockdown was relatively brief, lifting around 8:45 a.m. CDT the same morning",
    "The alert framed the situation only as a nearby 'emergency,' a common approach when the actual incident is adjacent to but not on campus"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Lockdown at STLCC Forest Park campus",
      "url": "https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local-news/lockdown-at-stlcc-forest-park-campus/",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "STLCC Forest Park campus briefly on lockdown (FOX 2 St. Louis)",
      "url": "https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/stlcc-forest-park-campus-on-lockdown/",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Central Visual and Performing Arts High School shooting",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Visual_and_Performing_Arts_High_School_shooting",
      "type": "other"
    },
    {
      "title": "STLCC Emergency Procedures: Lock Down",
      "url": "https://stlcc.edu/about/police-safety/emergency-procedures/lockdown.aspx",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "STLCC-Forest Park official Twitter/X account (@STLCCForestPark), tweet posted at 8:11 a.m. CDT on October 24, 2022, as r",
      "url": "https://twitter.com/STLCCForestPark",
      "type": "official-archive"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "medium",
  "tags": [
    "shelter-in-place",
    "lockdown",
    "missouri",
    "community-college",
    "spillover",
    "emergency-notification"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-05-29",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-06-01",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}