Donation to a Twitch Stream used to notify NCCU Campus of Shooting Incident

On the brink of a shooting incident at the North Carolina Central University at around 11 PM on 25 Oct 2015, an alert was broadcast to fellow campus residents by Redditor “bawkqsz” by making use of Twitch TV donation for Reynad’s Twitch stream.

Redditor “bawkqsz” who is also an NCCU campus resident was following the Reynad’s Twitch stream when the shooting started. Following this, he realized that the since this Reynad’s Twitch stream had close to 20,000 viewers at that time, it was a good idea to notify about the incident there to alert any other NCCU resident to protect themselves.

Redditor bawkqsz’s Twitch donation read:

“there is an active shooter on campus, sorry if I miss the rest of your stream for dying. North Carolina Central University in case anyone is a student and is not aware”.

Other fellow NCCU Redditors did confirm that this message was the first place where they heard about the incident that was broadcast even before the Twitter feed from NCCU tweeted with about the incident. The Tweet from the NCCU Twitter handle @NCCU read

Following this shooting incident, NCCU Campus Police had issued a campus-wide lockdown that was later lifted by 12 AM.

NCCU officials have confirmed that the shooting incident occurred off Lawson Street closer to Alston Avenue. One student was injured in the incident with an injury to his eye, who was immediately shifted to the local hospital and is said to be in stable condition now.

Unconfirmed reports suggest that there was a total of 5 suspects dressed in black clothing with hoodies and was last seen running north away from the campus towards Dupree Street, but we are yet to be confirmed on this.

NCCU Police is further looking for more information on the suspect and has appealed the public to provide with any additional information they have on the suspect by contacting the NCCU Police Department on 919-530-6106

 

Originally posted onĀ new yorker daily