ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Officers from the Orchard Park and Hamburg police departments were called to the ECC South Campus Wednesday morning following an incident off-campus Tuesday night.
Paula Sandy, a spokesperson for the college, told 2 On Your Side that the incident involved two ECC students, adding that threats were made toward one of the students. The student then reported those threats to the college Wednesday morning.
"When this student reported to our security office that they were threatened by the other student, we put the campus into immediate lockdown until we were able to locate the second student," Sandy said.
We're told the only people on campus on Wednesday were office staff and student athletes. The college campus was put into lockdown for several hours, because the college felt there was a credible threat to the campus community.
Sandy went on to say that the student was located Wednesday afternoon at a residence in Buffalo and was not on campus. The students names have not been released at this time, but 2 On Your Side has been told that there is an ongoing investigation.
Following Wednesday's events, Sandy says the ECC South Campus will be closed for the remainder of the day Wednesday, allowing students and staff to go home and process what happened.
"We're closing the campus this afternoon, but if the athletes that are here on campus want to stay and interact with their coaches - we're not kicking them off of campus. We just want to give them the leave to be able to process what took place."