Police lifted a shelter-in-place order near the University of Denver early Sunday morning after taking a person who had been barricaded into custody, officials said.
The Denver Police Department that an individual was in custody, but offered no other details.
That message came five-and-a-half hours after residents across Denver reported receiving wireless emergency alerts on their cellphones about an “active threat” in the area of 2495 S. Vine St. City officials acknowledged more than 40 minutes later that the message had been mistakenly sent
The alert was issued around 8 p.m. for an “active barricaded subject off-campus” at the South Vine Street address, which is south of DU, the school’s . There was no active threat to DU, campus safety officials added.
Denver police that they were trying to “contact an individual that is barricaded in a residence.”
People in the area were told to “stay away from windows and doors until further notice.”
The Denver Public Safety Department that the shelter-in-place order only applied to a two-block radius around the South Vine Street address.
The emergency alert sent to cellphones around 8 p.m. advised people to check the for updates, but the agency did not until 8:47 p.m.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
