Syracuse University Locked Down Briefly After Shots Fired Nearby
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Syracuse University locked down its campus for about an hour Monday after a man was wounded in a drive-by shooting several blocks from campus, police said.
Students were alerted by e-mail of the lockdown after a 20-year-old man sitting in a parked car was shot in the neck from someone in a passing car, police said. The victim, who is not a student, was in critical condition.
The e-mail alert sent at about 11:30 a.m. Monday told the more than 19,000 students to seek shelter and barricade their doors. The lockdown was lifted about an hour later, when police reported the suspect was gone.
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Police were pursuing the gunman, who they said apparently targeted the victim.
Syracuse put the alert system in place about a year ago after the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007. The system has been tested before, but this was the first time it was used in earnest.