Lowell police confirmed Thursday they identified a juvenile believed to have brandished a firearm on Wednesday, prompting a massive response from law enforcement and a lock down at UMass Lowell.

Video of a man walking near a dorm room with what looked like a gun triggered a campus lockdown, with students barricaded inside dorm rooms and lecture halls and officers swarming the campus.

Police said the firearm, which was confirmed to be “an airsoft replica weapon”, has been recovered.

“Personally my heart was beating out of my chest,” said freshman student Harlem Meade-Draves. “I didn’t know what was going on some people were crying some people were panicking.”

UMass Lowell police confirmed video recorded by a student, along with surveillance camera on a residence hall, picked up the susp

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