Police will conduct a room by room search starting with
the residential college areas. They will identify
themselves and slip their id cards under the door for
confirmation of identity. Please co-operate, but do not
open your doors for anyone without identification.
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Message sent to Yale Community, November 25 - 10:17 a.m.
New Haven Police have received an anonymous call from a phone booth in the 300 block of Columbus Avenue (between Howard Avenue and Hallock Street) reporting a person on the Yale campus with a gun. There have been NO confirmations or sightings of this person. Yale and New Haven Police are in the area. If you have information, please call 911 immediately. The Yale Police Department advises those on campus to remain in their current location until there is additional information.
New Haven Police have received an anonymous call from a phone booth in the 300 block of Columbus Avenue (between Howard Avenue and Hallock Street) reporting a person on the Yale campus with a gun. There have been NO confirmations or sightings of this person. Yale and New Haven Police are in the area. If you have information, please call 911 immediately. The Yale Police Department advises those on campus to remain in their current location until there is additional information.
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The one thing I learned at Kent State
in 1970 is that people act on incomplete information; and that the presence of
people carrying guns (officially) and rumors of others carrying guns
(unofficially), is no guarantee of safety.
Coolheadedness
is at a premium in such a situation.
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