University of Oregon issues alert after gunfire reported near campus

Reports of gunshots stirred the East Campus vicinity adjacent the University of Oregon aboriginal April 19.

Officers with the Eugene Police Department responded to the quality astatine the Student Manor apartments connected the 1400 artifact of E. 18th Avenue, westbound of Agate Street, astatine 3:44 a.m.

The University of Oregon issued an alert at 4:11 a.m. urging assemblage members to debar the area.

According to police, the quality progressive 2 males who were reported to person near the location. Officers recovered 1 of them astatine E. 19th Avenue and Emerald Street, conscionable southbound of the apartments. He had non-life-threatening injuries and was transported to a section hospital. According to UO Alerts, his injuries were owed to "being deed successful the caput by a metallic baton-like object."

As of 11 a.m., constabulary were inactive connected the lookout for the different idiosyncratic involved. The fishy was described arsenic a achromatic male, bald, wearing each black, past seen moving southbound connected Agate Street.

An probe was ongoing. Anyone with accusation was asked to telephone the EPD non-emergency enactment astatine 541-682-5111.

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected Register-Guard: University of Oregon issues alert, gunfire reported by pupil housing