The all-clear was sounded at the University of Denver campus late Thursday afternoon after two reports of a man with a gun.
DU spokesman Will Jones told reporters that Campus Safety was warned that a man dressed in black and carrying an assault weapon was going to harm his girlfriend.
Jones said the first call, received about 3:30 p.m., sounded as if it had come from a “computer-generated voice.”
Denver police Cmdr. Joe Montoya said he could not confirm reports that the call was a “swatting” prank in which video game players make false reports as jokes on one another.
The call’s computer-generated voice and threat toward a girlfriend are similar to swatting episodes at other campuses, Montoya said.
On Saturday, Weld County SWAT team members did a building-by-building search of Aims Community College in Greeley after a series of phone calls made threats of violence against police and a woman, but officials later announced they believe the calls were a possible case of swatting.
Thursday’s second call — about a man supposedly carrying a handgun in a different area on the DU campus — was unfounded as well, school officials said.
On Tuesday night, DU was briefly on alert after a report of a man with a gun near the Ritchie Center. That “gun” turned out to be a hockey stick.
