{"id":600909,"date":"2026-04-23T04:21:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/600909\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:21:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:21:25","slug":"police-investigation-underway-at-umass-amherst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/600909\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigation underway at UMass Amherst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AMHERST, Mass. (WGGB\/WSHM) &#8211; UMass Amherst students received an alarming text message alert Wednesday night, stating that an investigation is currently happening on campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">We have limited information at this time but right now we do know students here at UMass Amherst received a text alerting them that an active investigation is underway inside the Campus Center Hotel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Western Mass News has reached out to UMass Amherst as well as UMass Police Department and the Northwestern District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At this time, we have not yet heard back from any of them with additional information as to what happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Stick with Western Mass News as more information enters our newsroom. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Western Mass News (WGGB\/WSHM). All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMHERST, Mass. (WGGB\/WSHM) &#8211; UMass Amherst students received an alarming text message alert Wednesday night, stating that an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,261414,451,3,41121,452,453,93264],"class_list":["post-600909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-campus-center-hotel","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-police-investigation","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-university-of-massachusetts-amherst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}