Classes canceled at UNC for rest of Wednesday after lockdown, for second time in 3 weeks
UNC-Chapel Hill will not hold classes for the rest of Wednesday following an hour-plus lockdown, the university announced.
Classes will resume Thursday.
On Wednesday, the university will operate in “Condition 3” until 5 p.m., which means the university is closed. Classes are canceled and non-mandatory operations are suspended. Only mandatory employees must remain at work.
From 5:01 to 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, the university will operate under “Condition 2,” which means the university will be open, but classes will remain canceled and non-mandatory operations will remain suspended. As in Condition 3, only mandatory employees must remain at work under Condition 2.
The lockdown Wednesday marked the second time in less than three weeks that the university has been on lockdown because of an armed or dangerous person on or near campus.
On Aug. 28, at the start of the second week of classes for the fall semester, campus entered a three-plus hour lockdown after a deadly shooting. A graduate student, Tailei Qi, is accused of shooting and killing professor Zijie Yan in Caudill Laboratories. The university canceled classes for two days following the shooting.
Chapel Hill police arrested Mickel Deonte Harris, 27, of Durham in connection to Wednesday’s incident. The university is leading the investigation.
The university says no shots were fired in the incident, which appears to have taken place at Alpine Bagel, an on-campus restaurant in the student union. The student union said it would close at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
This story was originally published September 13, 2023 at 3:46 PM.
