Maine colleges cancel classes following mass shooting
Lewiston — where 18 were killed Wednesday night — is a college town, home to Bates College.
www.wgbh.orgI don’t have live updates here, but here’s what’s known about Bates College lockdown events in Lewiston, Maine, from late October 2023:
- The campus and the Lewiston area experienced a mass shooting on Oct. 25, 2023, with Bates College going into lockdown and later canceling classes for several days as the situation unfolded. This information was widely reported at the time.[3][8]
- Bates issued shelter-in-place directives and coordinated campus safety measures, including shuttling students to residence halls and limiting movement while the manhunt and investigation continued.[2][3]
- Class schedules and campus events were disrupted, including postponement of a presidential inauguration and other activities, while public safety responders conducted operations in Lewiston and the surrounding area.[8][2]
- Coverage from multiple outlets at the time noted the broader context of Maine colleges in lockdown due to the active shooter threat, with Bates being one of several institutions affected.[4][3]
If you want, I can try to locate the latest official Bates updates or summarize current, ongoing developments from reliable sources. I can also provide a concise timeline of events from that incident or pull quotes from Bates’ campus safety communications, if that helps.