{ "id": "2025-05-10-university-of-washington-maple-hall-shooting", "slug": "university-of-washington-maple-hall-shooting-2025-05-10", "institution": { "name": "University of Washington", "shortName": "UW", "state": "WA", "type": "public-r1", "alertSystemName": "UW Alert", "enrollment": 48000 }, "incident": { "date": "2025-05-10", "type": "shooting", "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification", "resolution": "under-investigation", "headline": "Bullet struck a fifth-floor dorm window at midnight; no injuries reported", "headlinePublic": "Bullet struck a fifth-floor dorm window at midnight; no injuries reported", "summary": "Just before midnight on May 10, 2025, a [bullet struck a fifth-floor window of Maple Hall](https://komonews.com/news/local/university-of-washington-police-confirm-shots-fired-on-campus-bullet-strikes-window-seattle-school-shooting-college-gun-handgun-investigation-missing), a student dormitory at the University of Washington. UW's [official Alert Blog posted at 12:23 a.m. PDT](https://emergency.uw.edu/2025/05/10/uw-alert-15/) with the 12:22 a.m. PDT alert text describing a white vehicle seen leaving a nearby parking lot, then updated at 12:35 a.m. PDT to say UW Police found no ongoing threat. No injuries were reported.", "outcome": "No injuries were reported. The shot may have originated from a white vehicle observed leaving a nearby parking lot heading east. UW Police determined there was no ongoing threat by 12:35 AM PDT on May 10, 2025." }, "alerts": [ { "sequence": 1, "type": "initial", "timestamp": "2025-05-10T00:22:00-07:00", "channel": "website", "verbatimText": "12:22 a.m.: UW Police are responding after a bullet hit a fifth-floor window in Maple Hall just before midnight. No one was hurt, and police believe there is no ongoing threat.\n\nThe shot may have come from a white vehicle seen leaving a nearby parking lot. The vehicle left the parking lot headed east. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call 911.", "isVerbatimConfirmed": true, "sourceUrl": "https://emergency.uw.edu/2025/05/10/uw-alert-15/", "sourceDescription": "UW Alert Blog official post", "annotations": [ "The primary-source text says police believed there was no ongoing threat even in the initial 12:22 a.m. PDT notice.", "UW included a sparse vehicle lead but did not instruct the whole campus to avoid Maple Hall, a narrow protective-action choice for a projectile strike with no injuries.", "The alert names Maple Hall and the fifth-floor window, a high-specificity location detail useful to residents without disclosing room-level information." ], "characterCount": 367 }, { "sequence": 2, "type": "all-clear", "timestamp": "2025-05-10T00:35:00-07:00", "channel": "website", "verbatimText": "UPDATE 12:35 a.m.: UW Police have searched the area and determined that there is no ongoing threat near Maple Hall.", "isVerbatimConfirmed": true, "sourceUrl": "https://emergency.uw.edu/2025/05/10/uw-alert-15/", "sourceDescription": "UW Alert Blog official update", "annotations": [ "The follow-up arrived 13 minutes after the initial alert, a very fast alert-to-update interval for a late-night shots-fired investigation.", "The update is deliberately local: 'near Maple Hall' rather than a campus-wide all-clear, keeping the scope tied to the searched area.", "UW did not repeat the vehicle description in the all-clear; the message focused only on the area search and threat status." ], "characterCount": 115 } ], "context": "Just before midnight on May 10, 2025, a [bullet struck the fifth-floor window of Maple Hall](https://komonews.com/news/local/university-of-washington-police-confirm-shots-fired-on-campus-bullet-strikes-window-seattle-school-shooting-college-gun-handgun-investigation-missing), a student dormitory at the University of Washington in Seattle. The official [UW Alert Blog](https://emergency.uw.edu/2025/05/10/uw-alert-15/) posted the first notice at 12:23 a.m. PDT, preserving a 12:22 a.m. PDT alert that said UW Police were responding and believed there was no ongoing threat. [FOX 13 Seattle](https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/uw-police-bullet-maple-hall) reported that the shot hit the fifth-floor window and summarized the 12:35 a.m. PDT no-ongoing-threat follow-up. The white-vehicle lead is unusually thin: the official alert says only that the vehicle left a nearby parking lot headed east, leaving no plate, make, or occupant description for residents to act on. No injuries were reported, but the fifth-floor impact made this a serious near-miss for a residential hall. The incident occurred weeks before a [fatal shooting near Greek Row on July 31](https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/man-killed-shooting-near-uw-campus-suspect-fled/281-8bac91fc-892d-427a-b852-931590e3479b), adding to 2025 concerns about gunfire near UW's Seattle campus.", "keyFindings": [ "A bullet striking a fifth-floor dormitory window represents a near-miss that could have seriously injured sleeping students", "The 13-minute alert-to-all-clear timeline reflects efficient communication for a nighttime incident", "Two shooting incidents near UW within weeks (Maple Hall in May and Greek Row fatal in July) raised broader campus safety concerns" ], "sources": [ { "title": "UW Alert - UW Alert Blog", "url": "https://emergency.uw.edu/2025/05/10/uw-alert-15/", "type": "official-archive" }, { "title": "UW police confirm shots fired near dorm, bullet strikes window (KOMO News)", "url": "https://komonews.com/news/local/university-of-washington-police-confirm-shots-fired-on-campus-bullet-strikes-window-seattle-school-shooting-college-gun-handgun-investigation-missing", "type": "local-media" }, { "title": "UW Police investigate bullet hitting Maple Hall dorm window (FOX 13 Seattle)", "url": "https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/uw-police-bullet-maple-hall", "type": "local-media" } ], "confidence": "high", "tags": [ "shooting", "dormitory", "washington", "bullet-strikes-window", "midnight", "no-injuries", "vehicle-suspect" ], "dateAdded": "2026-04-04", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-16", "addedBy": "ingestion" }