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Threat against student prompts lockdown at Seattle Pacific University

Oct 31, 2014, 1:57 PM | Updated: 3:55 pm

Seattle Pacific University, the site of a shooting in June, was locked down Friday after police say...

Seattle Pacific University, the site of a shooting in June, was locked down Friday after police say someone threatened a student. (Photo: KIRO Radio/Brandi Kruse)

(Photo: KIRO Radio/Brandi Kruse)

A threat to a student prompted a brief lockdown on Seattle Pacific University’s campus Friday afternoon.

Seattle police said the lockdown was lifted after discovering the student’s former girlfriend sent him a threatening text message and posed no threat to the school.

The message stated that she would kill the student and his friends. She also claimed to be on the school’s campus at the time.

Police determined she lives in Skagit County and was nowhere near the campus. Skagit County deputies arrested the suspect at a home outside Burlington.

She will be transferred to Seattle Police before she is booked into King County Jail for investigation of harassment.

Seattle Pacific University is the scene of a shooting on June 5, 2014. Aaron R. Ybarra is accused of walking into Otto Miller Hall and shooting three people.

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