{"id":310814,"date":"2026-10-20T21:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T21:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310814\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T21:22:09","slug":"university-of-pittsburgh-building-being-evacuated-over-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310814\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Pittsburgh building being evacuated over threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792531329_696_291fc991-ae68-4748-bef5-4153cca7fc19_1791998326.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Ethan Rowinski\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A suspect is currently in custody after a threat was made to a University of Pittsburgh building, according to Pitt Police.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">University of Pittsburgh police sent an emergency alert at 3:50 p.m., citing a large police presence at Posvar Hall at the corner of South Bouquet and Roberto Clemente Drive. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Sky4, Pittsburgh&#8217;s only news chopper, was over the scene as students evacuated the building.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The threats were made towards a specific department according to Pittsburgh Police. The department in question has not been named.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">The suspect has not been identified. Police are continuing to investigate and are asking people to avoid the area.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">This story is developing. Pittsburgh\u2019s Action News 4 is working to learn the latest information and will bring it to you as it becomes available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A suspect is currently in custody after a threat was made to a University of Pittsburgh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16296,26102,2588,4800,73,58709,75,74,745,51522,127140,2581,127139,127138,6984,16409,10603,10254],"class_list":["post-310814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-corner","tag-large-police-presence","tag-only-news-chopper","tag-p-m","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-building","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-police","tag-posvar-hall","tag-roberto-clemente-drive","tag-scene","tag-south-bouquet","tag-specific-department","tag-student","tag-threat","tag-university","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310814","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=310814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}