An active shooter is reported at the University of South Carolina’s Thomas Cooper library in Columbia. Avoid the area, the university said via Carolina Alert.

There is no evidence of a shooter at the University of South Carolina’s campus library, a school spokesperson said Sunday, after a schoolwide alert about a shooter who had been reported to be on the Columbia campus.

Students on the University of South Carolina's Columbia campus experienced an active shooter scare on Sunday evening, but no threat was found and no shooting took place.