The weapon from a parking lot shooting early Sunday morning at CU Boulder’s Williams Village dorms was an air pistol that shoots BBs, according to the University of Colorado Police Department.
At approximately 3 a.m., CU police responded to a noise complaint at Weber Hall and were breaking up a large party when they received reports of shots fired in a parking lot outside the building, according to a 7 a.m. campus emergency alert.
At 4:24 a.m., CU released an emergency alert reporting the shooting and imposed a shelter-in-place order. By 5:25 a.m., four suspects, three of whom are juveniles, were identified and arrested and the shelter-in-place was lifted, officials said. The suspects are not affiliated with the university and no serious injuries were reported, according to police.
, the weapon in question was later determined to be an air pistol that shoots BBs and sounds similar to a gunshot.
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