UMass Lowell students were in a lockdown Wednesday afternoon as police investigate reports of a person with a gun on campus.

A video was circulating of a person with a possible gun walking in Lowell near the Riverview Suites on Middlesex Street.

“UMass Lowell police investigating incident,” the university website reads.

“Police from UMass Lowell and the city of Lowell were alerted this afternoon to reports of a male on South Campus carrying an object suspected of being a firearm,” UMass Lowell posted. “A campus-wide shelter in place order has been issued as officers attempt to find this individual.”

Mass State Police was responding to the scene.

“We are aware of a video circulating of a person who appears to be armed walking in Lowell near the Riverview Suites on Middlesex Street,” MS

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