{"id":68628,"date":"2025-08-08T22:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T22:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/68628\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T22:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T22:39:10","slug":"active-shooter-reported-at-emory-university-in-atlanta-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/68628\/","title":{"rendered":"Active shooter reported at Emory University in Atlanta, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By JEFF AMY, Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Police were responding Friday to a report of an active shooter on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, near the entrance to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta police did not immediately say whether anyone was injured in the shooting. The university warned students and others on the campus to shelter in place, writing \u201cRUN, HIDE, FIGHT\u201d in an alert on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Police vehicles continued to arrive from metro Atlanta agencies as a warning siren continued to sound.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re horrified by the news out of Emory University and praying for the safety of the entire campus community,\u201d Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said.<\/p>\n<p>Staff at a deli near campus locked the doors and hunkered down inside. Brandy Giraldo, General Muir\u2019s chief operating officer, said staffers inside heard a string of gunshots.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Emergency vehicles line up near Emory University and Centers for...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Emergency vehicles line up near Emory University and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jeff Amy)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DeKalb County firefighters gather outside an Emory University medical building...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP25220800725311.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>DeKalb County firefighters gather outside an Emory University medical building in Atlanta on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jeff Amy)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 2<\/p>\n<p>Emergency vehicles line up near Emory University and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jeff Amy)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sounded like fireworks going off, one right after the other,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>This story has been corrected to show the deli\u2019s name is spelled General Muir, not General Miur.<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press writers Safiyah Riddle and Jesse Bedayn contributed.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: August 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By JEFF AMY, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Police were responding Friday to a report of an active&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34904,5786,4,450,1619,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-68628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-active-shooter","tag-atlanta","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-emory-university","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68628","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=68628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}