{"id":181329,"date":"2026-05-01T16:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181329\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:03:36","slug":"public-asked-to-avoid-area-surrounding-suny-erie-city-campus-in-downtown-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181329\/","title":{"rendered":"Public asked to avoid area surrounding SUNY Erie City Campus in Downtown Buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) \u2014 Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz announced that the public is asked to avoid the area surrounding SUNY Erie City Campus in Downtown Buffalo due to an &#8220;ongoing situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>7 News has received screenshots of text messages to students that said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ECC ALERT &#8211; immediate lockdown is in effect at city campus POST Building.secure rooms and lockdown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ECC ALERT &#8211; lockdown of POST BUILDING at City campus still in effect. Athletic center and 45 Oak shelter in place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777651416_603_.jpeg\" alt=\"ecc text.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>WKBW<\/p>\n<p>The Erie County Sheriff&#8217;s Office tells 7 News that it is on scene and assisting the Buffalo Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>7 News Senior Reporter Maki Becker reports from the scene in the video below. <\/p>\n<p>Public asked to avoid area surrounding SUNY Erie City Campus in Downtown Buffalo<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story; we will provide more information as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) \u2014 Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz announced that the public is asked to avoid the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-181329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}