The LSU Police Department has opened an internal investigation following complaints about its response last week to an “incoherent” student driving into the Quad and causing confusion and some panic in the area.LSUPD Spokesperson Sgt. Blake Tabor said the department has no reason to suspect any wrongdoing on its part, but it is investigating the response because of complaints from the faculty, staff and students.Storm Erie, architecture junior, drove a car down the Middleton sidewalk and into the Quad on Feb. 23. Once in the Quad, Erie unloaded a random assortment of items from his vehicle before he went to the Art and Design building, where he was later found by police, according to police and witnesses.Erie was not arrested and no charges were filed against him. He received medical treatment following the incident and is now “doing well” according to his sister, Skye Erie.Skye Erie declined to comment on her brother’s motivations.Tabor said the incident is still under investigation, but charges are unlikely at this point. “To my knowledge, there was no drug test,” Tabor said. “Every piece of information we got pointed to a mental situation, and we treated it as that.” Since the incident, students and faculty have complained about the police response and the choice not to employ the University’s emergency text message in the situation.Tabor did not release the tapes documenting the emergency calls from the incident to “give due process to the person under investigation.”Police constructed a timeline from the calls to illustrate the evolution of the incident.The first call police received was from an unidentified woman who said a driver in the Quad almost hit people, according to police records.From the beginning of the first call, it took three minutes and 37 seconds for the department to dispatch the call to officers, according to the police timeline. The timeline says police arrived at the Quad 59 seconds after being dispatched.Tabor said the operator fielded nine different calls on the situation during the period between the first call and dispatch.Joe Rhodes, University instructor and doctoral student, witnessed Erie park in the Quad and followed him until police found Erie. Rhodes made his second call telling police Erie had a gas can 25 seconds after the timeline says officers reported arriving at the Quad.Tabor explained that Rhodes may not have seen the police from their entry point in the Quad.Rhodes’ next call was placed three minutes later, according to his Verizon Wireless phone bill. Rhodes said this call took place while Erie was leaving the Quad. Considering both Rhodes’ records and the police timeline, police would have been at the Quad for more than three minutes before Erie exited.Officers found Erie nine minutes and 23 seconds after the first call, according to the police timeline.But Rhodes’ phone records show a 20-minute span between his first and last call to police. Rhodes said police were walking to the Art and Design Building to Erie when he ended his last call — 22 minutes after his first call.Tabor said the emergency text message system wasn’t employed because calls police received did not report Erie making any threats and did not constitute a life-threatening situation.”We are trying to avoid the emergency text message system becoming a information system instead of an emergency system,” Tabor said. “We don’t want to cry wolf.”–Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at [email protected]