{"id":149930,"date":"2025-08-16T07:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T07:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149930\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T07:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T07:28:15","slug":"police-investigating-email-that-sparked-active-shooter-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149930\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating email that sparked active-shooter fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Central-Jail.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Central-Jail.jpg\" alt=\"Central jail\" class=\"wp-image-234429\"  \/><\/a>The central jail on Front Street in downtown San Diego was briefly on lockdown Friday due to the report of an active shooter downtown. (File photo by Chris Stone\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>An email reporting an active shooter on the attack in a retail mail and printing-services shop in downtown San Diego caused a brief scare late Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The 11:50 a.m. report, which turned out to be unfounded, prompted a heavy influx of police in the busy commercial area around the 600 block of C Street.<\/p>\n<p>A business received an email about the purported gunfire at a FedEx storefront shortly before noon and group-messaged other merchants to alert them to the possible threat, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Diego Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers responded and determined there was no active shooter and (that) there is no threat to the public,\u201d the department posted on socialmedia.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities who arrived on scene issued the all-clear within about 15 minutes, Officer David O\u2019Brien said. Among the affected locations was San Diego Central Jail, which went into a brief lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Who sent the bogus shooting report \u2013 and whether it was simply a mistake or an intentional criminal threat \u2013 remained unclear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is being investigated,\u201d O\u2019Brien said.<\/p>\n<p>City News Service contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The central jail on Front Street in downtown San Diego was briefly on lockdown Friday due to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[65570,5229,1582,276,8315,12817,3549,22509,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-149930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-active-shooter","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-downtown-san-diego","13":"tag-email","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-san-diego-police-department","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115037267833053104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}