Vehicle backfiring leads to police response on MU campus
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A vehicle backfiring led to police to respond to an area of the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus on Monday evening.
An MU Alert was sent out to students at 8:35 p.m. indicating that officers were responding to a shots-fired call in the 900 block of South Providence Road.
The Columbia Police Department wrote in a social media post at 9:25 p.m. that it had received multiple 911 calls “in reference to a report of shots being fired” in the area. There was no evidence of shots being fired, police wrote.
Officer spoke with callers and other people in the area “and confirmed that no one saw shots being fired, only heard a loud noise when a vehicle drove by. It was later confirmed by a witness that a vehicle backfiring was the source of the loud noise,” the post says.
Some MU students began moving onto campus on Saturday, with a majority expected to move in on Wednesday and Thursday, according to information on the university’s website.
CPD wrote in its social media post that five CPD officers, a K-9 unit and MUPD officers responded to the call.