Metropolitan Community College evacuates after suspicious package threat
A Kansas City community college was briefly evacuated Wednesday afternoon as police responded to reports of a suspicious package near a campus building.
The package was sighted outside of the Broadway Plaza building of Metropolitan Community College’s Penn Valley campus, at 3217 Broadway Blvd., according to MCC campus police.
Just before 4 p.m. Wednesday, students were instructed to evacuate the building by way of the back entrance. The threat did not actually take place on campus property, the spokesperson said.
Since the alert took place near the end of the business day and near a non-academic building, few students and staff were directly affected by the evacuation notice, an MCC spokesperson said Friday afternoon.
MCC students received the all-clear notice to return to campus at 5:12 p.m. Wednesday. However, the Kansas City Police Department is still investigating the package and the area, according to Sgt. Phil DiMartino, a KCPD Spokesperson.
Several blocks of Broadway Boulevard were closed off late Wednesday afternoon as MCC police and Kansas City police conducted an investigation.
