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The State Hornet

The student news site of Sacramento State University

The State Hornet

Student news without fear or favor

BREAKING: Reports of rifle on campus unfounded

Police say they investigated and there was no threat to campus
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Madelaine Church
Guy West Bridge, April 2, 2023 at Sacramento State where there were reports of a person with a possible rifle, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. The Sacramento State Police Department investigated the reports and found that they were unfounded.

Sacramento State Police Department sent the campus community a statement that reports of a person with a rifle on campus Thursday afternoon were unfounded, according to a SacSend.

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The SacSend from the Sac State PD, reads as follows:

“The Sacramento State Police Department received a third-hand report of a suspicious subject with a possible rifle on the Guy West Bridge this afternoon. Sac State police immediately investigated and found that the report was unfounded, and there was no threat to the campus community.”

Sac State PD’s Lt. of Patrol Operations Harvey Woo told The State Hornet there are surveillance cameras at the bridge.  

“We looked at surveillance footage and we did a canvas of the area and there is no indication of any suspicious person or any sighting of any type of a weapon near the bridge,” Woo said. 

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Peyton Sorosinski
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Peyton joined The State Hornet in the spring of 2023 as a news staffer. She is currently a co-copy editor and grad student in her second semester at The State Hornet. She looks forward to developing a career in journalism and professional writing.
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San Diego native Mercy Sosa returns in spring 2024 as the editor-in-chief at The State Hornet. She joined The Hornet in spring 2020 as a politics beat writer; she later served as news, digital and Spanish language editor. Sosa has freelanced for Sacramento Business Journal, Solving Sacramento and Univision.
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