UPDATE: A lockdown at Langara College was cancelled just before 9:30 p.m. on Thursday night, following a robbery inside the college.
Vancouver police said they were called around 8:30 p.m. after being informed a student inside the college was robbed of electronic equipment by a man with a gun. Following the robbery, the man fled the campus and no one was injured.
Just before 9:30 p.m. the man believed to be responsible for the robbery was arrested in the area of Main Street and East 17 Avenue.
The 29-year-old Vancouver man remains in custody and police said he has a lengthy criminal record. Charges have yet to be laid.
Story from Thursday night:
Just after 9 p.m., the college sent out a Tweet telling people on campus to “stay where you are” and lock the doors.
A video taken by Langara student Caroline Park also emerged on Twitter:
In the video, a recorded message can be heard telling students that the college was on lockdown due to a “violent intruder” on campus.
Park, who is taking a Mandarin class as part of Langara’s Continuing Studies program, told Global News that she in Building B when she heard the message and saw people running out of the building.
She later took the video from inside a classroom.
“I was going into class, they were trying to lock the doors because everybody was told lock the doors, lock the room,” she said.
Park said she took the video about 10 minutes before 9 p.m.
Langara College tweeted that the lockdown had been cancelled at 9:30 p.m.
The campus was secured and students and faculty were free to leave classrooms and buildings.
The college did not clarify what the cause of the threat was.
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