UPDATE (10:29 p.m.): LSUPD has issued an update on the situation. “LSU Police received information from West Baton Rouge 911, in reference to a threat on the LSU Campus that had been heard over a CB radio.  As a result of the investigation, a suspect was taken into custody.  A text message was then sent in an effort to clear the area until LSU Police could determine the area was safe.  The investigation is continuing.
Emergency text messages are sent when LSU needs an immediate response from the community or there is an immediate threat to the community.  In this particular situation a response from the community was needed.  The text message that was sent stated “Police are securing the Union Square Parking Garage and Barnes & Noble bookstore. Please stay clear of these facilities.” As a form of redundancy, the system follows up the text message with a broadcast email stating the information from the text message. In this instance the system failed to update the subject line of the email and wrongly included information stating ‘armed robbery’.”
An misleading LSU eTXT email included false information about the incident it was intended to inform students of.
The alert was received around 8:20 p.m. Tuesday, stating, “Police are securing the Union Square Parking Garage and Barnes & Noble bookstore.  Please stay clear of these facilities.  Visit lsu.edu for more information.”  
LSU Media Relations then redacted the statement, stating, “It was not an armed robbery.  That was a glitch in the text message and was not intended to be the message.”
Information on lsu.edu was not made immediately available after the eTXT was received.
A specific crime was not included in the text message version of the alert.
LSU’s vague text message worried some students who live on campus, saying they are concerned about the nature of the crime, but had little to know information on its severity.
“It’s very vague considering how close I live to the bookstore and the Union Square parking garage,”  East Campus Apartments tenant and sophomore Caroline Bourgeois said.  It’s kind of alarming to not know what’s going on, so I immediately locked my door because I didn’t know what it was or how I should react.”
LSUPD has not released any new information concerning the crime, referring to the situation as “a possible threat.”  It is still an ongoing investigation.
Tiger TV will have more information on the vagueness of the eTXT tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. on tigertv.tv.

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