COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) — ABC Columbia spoke with multiple students as well as USC’s Deputy Chief of Police Scott Prill after USC issued an “all clear” alert following Sunday’s active shooter alert.

At 6:30 Sunday evening, university officials sent out a campus-wide Carolina Alert stating there was an active shooter at the Thomas Cooper Library on the Columbia campus — telling students to “avoid the area, evacuate, barricade and defend yourself.”

“This evening about 6:30 p.m. our dispatch received a call of shots fired in the Thomas Cooper Library. We responded. We sent out a Carolina Alert, which goes out to all of our students, faculty, and staff — advising them to shelter in place until we investigated,” says USC Deputy Chief of Police Scott Prill.

A second update alerted students to a p

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