I have never been a fan of getting calls early in the morning. I don't wake up until around ten thirty. Oh, you see my body up at seven thirty? That doesn't mean I'm awake, now does it.

This morning at 8:08 am I received a call from the University of Iowa's Hawk Alert system. An unnamed active shooter was reported in the Iowa City area. The university had no more information for us then that. I immediately instant messaged Aaron with the news and then started looking for information. The Hawk Alert was given out so soon that the major newspaper (The Gazette) and the student newspaper (Daily Iowan) had not been able to put up articles yet. I'm really glad that Iowa moved so fast to put out information to their student community.

It's now been a little over an hour since the first Hawk Alert was sent out, and another Hawk Alert came about twenty minutes ago or so. I didn't catch this one, but I believe it said that nobody at the university was targeted.

I went back and dug around and found these two articles: Shooter in Iowa City Area, Iowa City on Alert for Gunman.

I'm interested to see what pans out and what really happened, and I'm glad that I wasn't on campus this morning when the first alert went out! I'm still waiting on the news to see if someone really was killed, and if that is the case, I will feel very badly for those families.

EDIT TO ADD:

Five Killed in Iowa City

How devastating.

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