SPRING LAKE — The sounds from a construction crew’s tools prompted the lockdown on Monday morning of Fayetteville Technical Community College’s Spring Lake Campus, the town Police Department said on Thursday.
Students and staff began calling 911 around 9:55 a.m. Monday to report the sound of gunfire, a news release says.
“As previously indicated, arriving law enforcement agencies did not locate an active shooter inside the building or on the campus grounds, nor did Law Enforcement, Fire Medics or EMS identify any person with injuries related to gunshot wounds,” the release says. “A review of student and staff activity on the campus did not identify information that a shooting had occurred.”
Investigators found that contractors were doing renovations to a glass rotunda, using air-powered impact tools. These tools sound similar to gunfire when their noise echoes through the glass and hallways where the crew was working, the news release says. This suggests their noise prompted the calls to 911, it says.
Multiple agencies responded to the campus, Fayetteville Tech previously said.
The FTCC lockdown on Monday followed lockdowns the previous week at Fayetteville State University and a number of Cumberland County Schools campuses after the schools received threats. Authorities later reported the threats were unfounded.
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