{
  "id": "2025-04-12-uc-davis-picnic-day-shooting",
  "slug": "uc-davis-picnic-day-shooting-2025-04-12",
  "institution": {
    "name": "University of California, Davis",
    "shortName": "UC Davis",
    "state": "CA",
    "type": "public-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "Aggie Alert / WarnMe",
    "alertPlatform": "Everbridge / Nixle",
    "enrollment": 40000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-04-12",
    "type": "shooting",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "confirmed-threat",
    "headline": "Off-campus park shooting wounds three during an annual campus celebration",
    "headlinePublic": "Off-campus park shooting wounds three during an annual campus celebration",
    "summary": "On April 12, 2025, during UC Davis's annual [Picnic Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic_Day_(UC_Davis)) celebration, a [shooting at Community Park](https://theaggie.org/2025/04/12/three-shot-following-a-shooting-in-community-park/) on 14th Street in the City of Davis left three people with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds during a UC Davis student-organization-sponsored gathering. UC Davis [issued an Aggie Alert](https://www.capradio.org/articles/2025/04/14/shooting-in-davis-leaves-3-injured/) directing the community to avoid the area. The suspect remained at large as of the case's last update.",
    "outcome": "Three injured (two teenagers and a 24-year-old), all with non-life-threatening injuries. Suspect at large. Davis Police Department continues investigation.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 0,
      "injured": 3
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2025-04-12T15:29:00-07:00",
      "channel": "sms",
      "verbatimText": "Avoid the area of 14th St/Community Park in the City of Davis due to police activity.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://theaggie.org/2025/04/12/three-shot-following-a-shooting-in-community-park/",
      "sourceDescription": "The California Aggie direct quote of the 3:29 p.m. PDT Aggie Alert",
      "annotations": [
        "Verbatim text directly quoted by The California Aggie: at 3:29 p.m. PDT, UC Davis sent an Aggie Alert telling the public to 'avoid the area of 14th St/Community Park in the City of Davis due to police activity'",
        "Issued during UC Davis Picnic Day, the campus's largest annual public event with over 75,000 attendees",
        "Community Park is approximately 1 mile north of the UC Davis campus core (201 E. 14th St); the gathering was sponsored by a UC Davis campus organization (Phi Beta Sigma Davis chapter)",
        "Officers responded to gunshots at the park at 2:58 p.m. PDT, making the alert-to-report interval approximately 31 minutes"
      ],
      "characterCount": 85
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "all-clear",
      "timestampApprox": "Evening of April 12, 2025 PDT, hours after the initial alert",
      "channel": "twitter-x",
      "verbatimText": "An Aggie Alert has been issued stating that the city of Davis police department has announced that police activity in Community Park has concluded.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://x.com/ucdavis/status/1911281649310191976",
      "sourceDescription": "@ucdavis on X (verbatim)",
      "annotations": [
        "Posted by the official @ucdavis account relaying the follow-up Aggie Alert that the City of Davis Police Department had concluded police activity in Community Park",
        "Frames the resolution as a city-police-led conclusion rather than a campus all-clear, reflecting the off-campus jurisdiction",
        "All three victims survived; Picnic Day events continued the following day after additional security review",
        "Corrected to exact fxtwitter display text."
      ],
      "characterCount": 147
    }
  ],
  "context": "Picnic Day is UC Davis's signature annual celebration, dating back to 1909, and routinely draws crowds in excess of 75,000 to the campus and surrounding city. The April 12, 2025 [shooting at Community Park](https://www.capradio.org/articles/2025/04/14/shooting-in-davis-leaves-3-injured/) on 14th Street occurred at a gathering organized by a UC Davis student organization, but on city property approximately one mile from the campus core. Three people, including [two teenagers and a 24-year-old](https://www.facebook.com/UCDavis/posts/), sustained non-life-threatening gunshot wounds. UC Davis issued an Aggie Alert that emphasized the off-campus location and the absence of a campus threat, a balance that has become standard practice for incidents adjacent to college campuses. The shooting added to a difficult year for UC Davis, which had also seen the [late 2023 Davis stabbings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Davis,_California_stabbings) less than two years earlier and the August 21, 2025 erroneous active shooter alert later in the same year.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Aggie Alert distinguished between 'police activity in the City of Davis' and 'threat to UC Davis campus,' a distinction not all campus alert systems make",
    "Off-campus shooting during Picnic Day illustrates how signature campus events can extend Clery and notification responsibilities into city space",
    "All three victims survived, but the event prompted security review for the second day of Picnic Day",
    "Suspect at large as of last public update reflects the limits of campus law enforcement reach on off-campus incidents"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Three people shot following a shooting on Picnic Day (The Aggie)",
      "url": "https://theaggie.org/2025/04/12/three-shot-following-a-shooting-in-community-park/",
      "type": "student-newspaper"
    },
    {
      "title": "Shooting in Davis leaves 3 injured (CapRadio)",
      "url": "https://www.capradio.org/articles/2025/04/14/shooting-in-davis-leaves-3-injured/",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Aggie Alert (UC Davis)",
      "url": "https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/aggie-alert",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Picnic Day (UC Davis) (Wikipedia)",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic_Day_(UC_Davis)",
      "type": "other"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://x.com/ucdavis/status/1911281649310191976",
      "title": "@ucdavis on X",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-07-18"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "shooting",
    "off-campus",
    "uc-system",
    "california",
    "davis",
    "picnic-day",
    "aggie-alert",
    "community-park",
    "non-fatal"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-05-03",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-18",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}