Well this isn't what I expected to be reading about, but Western Illinois University's off campus apartment received a threat as to a shooting that was to occur on campus.
The residence halls are locked until further notice to protect the students. The residence halls are only key accessible and only students with keys can get in. This is being done while the campus police, Macomb police, McDonough County Sheriff's Office and the Illinois State Police investigate any and all leads. There's heavy police prescence on campus and patroling the campus area as well.
This just sickens me!!!! Even if this is a hoax, it pisses me off that someone would find it amusing to do this especially with the recent events that have occured at Virginia Tech and at Northern Illinois University.
I always felt safe on campus when I went there and now they have even stronger security measures in place there to make it safer. Yet still, now you have to worry about this occuring.
We need to do anything we can to prevent this from happening in the future.
I hope that whoever did this will be found and dealt with.
