{
  "id": "2025-05-17-university-of-washington-uw-alert",
  "slug": "university-of-washington-uw-alert-2025-05-17",
  "institution": {
    "name": "University of Washington",
    "shortName": "UW",
    "state": "WA",
    "type": "public-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "UW Alert",
    "enrollment": 50000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-05-17",
    "type": "active-threat",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "under-investigation",
    "headline": "Suspect not located after reported campus-area threat",
    "headlinePublic": "Suspect not located after reported campus-area threat",
    "summary": "University of Washington [published an official alert update](https://emergency.uw.edu/2025/05/17/uw-alert-16/) on or about 2025-05-17. Full text is preserved from the official emergency updates archive.",
    "outcome": "See official update page for operational or investigation status.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 0,
      "injured": 0
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "Published on or about 2025-05-17 on the official emergency updates site",
      "channel": "multi-channel",
      "verbatimText": "UPDATE: 1:49 a.m.: Police have not yet located the suspect. If seen, call 911. Initial reports indicate that a fight was breaking out near a party in the area when the individual fired the gun three times. One of the shots hit the window of a nearby home, but no one was hurt.\n\nUPDATE 1:38 a.m.: Police are searching the area for the suspect.\n\n1:32 a.m.: Reports of three shots fired in the 4500 block of 21st Avenue NE. No one hurt. Suspect last seen on foot headed north on 21st. The suspect was described as a man in his 20s, about 6 feet tall, wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt with a flower on it and black pants.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://emergency.uw.edu/2025/05/17/uw-alert-16/",
      "sourceDescription": "UW Alert official update",
      "annotations": [
        "Transcribed from official emergency updates archive page body.",
        "Confirmed-verbatim recovery from live institutional source."
      ],
      "characterCount": 617,
      "confidence": "high"
    }
  ],
  "context": "Official UW Alert update archive entry for University of Washington.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Official emergency updates page preserves complete multi-update alert text."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "type": "official-archive",
      "title": "UW Alert",
      "url": "https://emergency.uw.edu/2025/05/17/uw-alert-16/",
      "accessDate": "2026-07-25"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "washington",
    "uw",
    "uw-alert",
    "active-threat"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-07-25",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-25",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}