The shooting prompted a lockdown at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and caused widespread panic across campus as students scrambled to take shelter. He said officers assembling nearby for a concert rushed to the classroom building and arrested the gunman in the room where the shooting took place. Shortly after UNC Charlotte issued a campus lockdown, aerial shots from local television news outlets showed police officers running toward a building, while another view showed students running on a campus sidewalk. Spenser Gray, a junior, said she was watching another student's presentation in a nearby campus building when the alert about the shooting popped up on everyone's computer screens. Susan Harden, an UNCC professor and Mecklenburg County Commissioner, was at home when she heard of the shooting.

Source: ABC News April 30, 2019 22:45 UTC