{"id":234781,"date":"2026-04-16T21:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234781\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:29:07","slug":"famu-live-tallahassee-florida-university-locked-down-as-police-swarm-in-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234781\/","title":{"rendered":"FAMU LIVE: Tallahassee, Florida university locked down as police swarm in | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have been deployed to FAMU (Florida A&amp;M University) amid reports that there is an active shooter at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s crime map shows a callout for &#8220;open carry of a weapon&#8221; in the area of Lake Bradford Road and FAMU, the Tallahassee Democrat reports.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Damon Miller, a watch commander at the Tallahassee Police Department, said they received a call about an active shooter \u2013 but there was no active shooter, the Tallahassee Democrat reported. and a robot competition was mistaken for gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW OUR BLOG BELOW FOR UPDATES&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have been deployed to FAMU (Florida A&amp;M University) amid reports that there is an active shooter at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[104675,104674,104735,28,232,234,233,1617],"class_list":["post-234781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-famu-shooter","tag-famu-shooting","tag-famu-university","tag-florida","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}