{"id":280576,"date":"2026-09-06T23:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T23:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280576\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T23:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T23:46:08","slug":"villanova-university-lockdown-lifted-after-police-find-alleged-attacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280576\/","title":{"rendered":"Villanova University lockdown lifted after police find alleged attacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \"><a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/villanova\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Villanova<\/a> University\u2019s campus was briefly under a lockdown Sunday evening as police searched for an attacker wanted in connection with a stabbing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The lockdown was lifted at 6:41 p.m. after the suspect was apprehended off campus, <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.villanova.edu\/university\/public-safety\/nova-alert.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.villanova.edu\/university\/public-safety\/nova-alert.html\">according to the university\u2019s alert system<\/a>. The school issued the lockdown at 6:10 as a \u201cprecautionary measure due to the proximity of the search,\u201d the alert said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The stabbing occurred on Interstate 476 and the alleged attacker fled, <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/radnorpolice\/posts\/pfbid02Z9PjHudP17B85DtxQVNKLoqG11mPQDuCJeZi9R1Y5eG5HADN9FMKuQxk2jhedeMal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/radnorpolice\/posts\/pfbid02Z9PjHudP17B85DtxQVNKLoqG11mPQDuCJeZi9R1Y5eG5HADN9FMKuQxk2jhedeMal\">according to a statement posted to Facebook from Radnor Township police<\/a>, who were assisting Pennsylvania State Police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Authorities took the suspect into custody \u201cwithout incident\u201d in the 1000 block of East Lancaster Avenue, according to the post. An earlier alert from <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/villanova-university\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Villanova University<\/a> said the person was armed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">\u201cThere is no threat to the community at this time, and all involved parties have been placed in custody,\u201d Radnor police said on Facebook. \u201cOur thoughts are with the victim and their family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The victim\u2019s condition was not immediately known, and police did not identity the person in custody. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Pennsylvania State Police are investigating. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min Villanova University\u2019s campus was briefly under a lockdown Sunday evening as police searched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186,117330],"class_list":["post-280576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-villanova-university-lockdown-radnor-lower-merion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280576","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=280576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}