On April 25, 2014, a caller reported a suspicious man with a possible weapon in his pocket on Kennesaw State University's Campus Green, triggering a campus-wide lockdown just after 2 p.m. EDT. Students and faculty barricaded classroom doors with desks and tables while police searched the 384-acre campus. When officers located the individual approximately 90 minutes later, the 'weapon' turned out to be his cell phone; he was cleared without any charges.
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13WMAZ (WXIA), quoting the text alert KSU students received shortly after 2 p.m.Every claim on this page is meant to be checkable. Open the links below (and the Verify this quote control under each confirmed alert) to read the original university, news, or archive page yourself. Hostnames are shown so you can see where you are going; archived copies survive when live pages move or disappear. See also our methodology.
Campus Alert Archive. "Kennesaw State University: Report of a possible weapon prompts 90-minute lockdown; object was a cell phone." Incident of April 25, 2014. Added May 2026; last updated July 2026. https://campusalertarchive.com/case/kennesaw-state-university-cellphone-lockdown-2014-04-25/
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