Friday morning, N.C A&T was put on a lockdown after a witness saw an individual carrying what appeared to be a rifle. 

A&T officials implemented a campus-wide lockdown and search and surrounding Guilford County Schools shut down. The matter was resolved as the witness mistook a man carrying an umbrella for a man carrying a gun into the university’s General Classroom Building. 

After carefully reviewing video footage from the building, officials caught the image of a person walking into the building carrying an umbrella with a strap hanging on his shoulder. 

The investigation is closed. 

For more information and coverage from the university lockdown, visit our webiste, www.ncatregister.com. 

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• Erik Veal, Editor-in-Chief