{
  "id": "2020-09-24-university-of-missouri-threatening-person",
  "slug": "university-of-missouri-threatening-person-2020-09-24",
  "institution": {
    "name": "University of Missouri",
    "shortName": "Mizzou",
    "state": "MO",
    "type": "public-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "MU Alert",
    "enrollment": 30000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2020-09-24",
    "type": "active-threat",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "resolution": "resolved",
    "headline": "active-threat campus emergency notice",
    "headlinePublic": "active-threat campus emergency notice",
    "summary": "University of Missouri [published an official alert](https://mualert.missouri.edu/updates/2020/09-24-threatening-person) on or about 2020-09-24. Full text is preserved from the official archive.",
    "outcome": "See official notice for status.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 0,
      "injured": 0
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "channel": "multi-channel",
      "timestampApprox": "Published on or about 2020-09-24",
      "verbatimText": "Sept. 24, 2020\n\n3:34 a.m.\n\nAt about 3 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, the University of Missouri Police Department arrested Nicholas Walters, 34, of Columbia, for unlawful use of a weapon, assault in the fourth degree, felony resisting arrest and trespassing in the first degree in response to a report of a man with a knife near the intersection of College Avenue and Anthony Street.\n\nAn MU Alert was issued at about 2:30 a.m. MUPD responded and took Walters into custody about 25 minutes later near Ripley and Pratt streets. The Columbia Police Department assisted.\n\n2:53 a.m.\n\nMU Alert Update: ALL CLEAR. Subject taken into custody at Ripley and Pratt streets. Campus back to normal conditions.\n\n2:40 a.m.\n\nMU Alert Update: Subject is a white male in his 40s with full beard and scraggly hair carrying knife near College Avenue and Anthony Street. Stay away from area. Police responding.\n\n2:30 a.m.\n\nMU Alert: Threatening person with knife near College Avenue and Anthony Street. Evacuate and stay away from area. Police are responding. Update to follow",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://mualert.missouri.edu/updates/2020/09-24-threatening-person",
      "sourceDescription": "MU Alert",
      "annotations": [
        "Transcribed from official institutional alert archive page.",
        "Confirmed-verbatim recovery from live institutional source."
      ],
      "characterCount": 1049,
      "confidence": "high"
    }
  ],
  "context": "Official MU Alert archive entry.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Official archive page preserves complete alert text."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "type": "official-archive",
      "title": "Threatening Person",
      "url": "https://mualert.missouri.edu/updates/2020/09-24-threatening-person",
      "accessDate": "2026-07-25"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "missouri",
    "mizzou",
    "mu-alert",
    "active-threat"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-07-25",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-25",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}