{"id":596723,"date":"2026-04-11T09:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596723\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T09:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:23:14","slug":"1-person-arrested-following-violent-incident-at-university-of-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596723\/","title":{"rendered":"1 person arrested following &#8216;violent incident&#8217; at University of Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person is in custody following a suspicious incident that forced a lockdown of the campus at the University of Ottawa late Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The university issued an alert to students on its emergency alert website and app just after 5 p.m. Friday, saying there was a \u201cviolent incident\u201d occurring at the campus. Students were told to \u201cget inside a building immediately,\u201d and to \u201ctake cover and remain silent until authorities instruct otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a violent attacker is close by, be ready to run, hide or, if your life is in imminent danger, defend yourself by any means necessary until you can get away,\u201d read the alert.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa police confirmed they were investigating a \u201csuspicious incident\u201d in the area of Nicholas Street and Laurier Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Just after 7 p.m., police said one person had been taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no injuries to report and there is no ongoing threat to public safety,\u201d police said in a social media post without providing any further details.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognize the concern this incident caused for students, faculty, staff, and their loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lockdown at the university has been lifted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person is in custody following a suspicious incident that forced a lockdown of the campus at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-596723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596723","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=596723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}