Columbus State University officials shot and killed a man reportedly loading a firearm close to a student apartment complex on Sunday.
Local authorities who spoke with the Associated Press this weekend said they chased the suspect down on foot.
"There was a short foot chase and at some point the suspect turned and faced the officers and shots were fired," University Police Chief Rus Drew told AP. No other people were hurt by the incident, and the western Georgia campus was not put on lockdown.
The man wasn't a student at the school, located around 100 miles southwest of Atlanta.
Drew told the Associated Press that some students were witness to the events, but school officials didn't order a lockdown because the incident happened quickly, and police decided an "isolated threat" was no longer present.
University spokesperson Bill Sutley said police were called to Columbus State at about 2:35 p.m. with reports of a man with a gun on campus. Law enforcement officials chased him down on foot, then fatally shot him. The man was pronounced dead at a hospital where he had been transferred by ambulance at around 3:15 p.m., AP reported.
The deceased man's identity has not yet been released, Drew told the Associated Press. Authorities will publicize his name once his family has been notified.
In a university statement, officials wrote that they were working with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation,
"This is a terrible tragedy," CSU's Tim Mescon stated. "We'll cooperate fully with the investigation...Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone involved in this as well as their families."
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