{"id":595974,"date":"2026-04-11T01:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/595974\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T01:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:24:08","slug":"false-alarm-leads-to-evacuation-of-mcgills-bronfman-building-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/595974\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018False alarm\u2019 leads to evacuation of McGill&#8217;s Bronfman Building, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal police evacuated McGill\u2019s Bronfman Building on the university\u2019s downtown campus Friday evening after receiving calls about \u201cgunshot noises,\u201d but confirmed the incident was a false alarm.<\/p>\n<p>A 911 call was made around 5:35 p.m. about gunshot noises inside the McGill University building on Sherbrooke St., near Metcalfe St., according to Montreal police spokesperson Johany Charland. The incident prompted an investigation, with reports of several police cars near the building and heavily armed officers inside.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived on the scene, Charland said the entire building was evacuated to ensure everyone\u2019s safety, and later confirmed nobody was injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne person still called to say they heard gunshots. So we don\u2019t take that lightly,\u201d Charland told The Gazette. <\/p>\n<p>By 7:45 p.m., police investigators confirmed the incident was a \u201cfalse alarm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident at McGill occurred around the same time as a lockdown at the University of Ottawa. That lockdown was lifted as of around 7:10 p.m., and one person was arrested in connection with the event. There were no injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal police confirmed the incidents at the two universities do not appear to be connected. <\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal police evacuated McGill\u2019s Bronfman Building on the university\u2019s downtown campus Friday evening after receiving calls about \u201cgunshot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,222407,16644,2338],"class_list":["post-595974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime-and-law","tag-mcgill-university","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}