A text-messaging system that warned of a gunman at St. John’s University in New York City earlier this week is drawing praise. The emergency messaging initiative is so new that administrators were debating whether to send a sample message out as a test when the gunman came onto the campus, wearing a mask and carrying a rifle.
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EARLIER: A troubled student wearing a Fred Flintstone mask and carrying a .50-caliber rifle was arrested at St. John’s University in New York City Wednesday, prompting the authorities to lock down the campus for three hours while they searched for a possible second gunman. The student, Omeash Hiraman, 22, was walking through the campus carrying a black plastic bag with the gun’s barrel sticking out of it when a campus security guard spotted him. Students at St. John’s were instructed, via text message to their cellphones, to stay where they were while the incident was in progress.
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