The Hidden Dangers Lurking Behind Every Window—What Michael Gutierrez Wants You to Know
The official text comes a few minutes later. “Alert Carolina! Emergency: Armed, dangerous person on or near campus. Go inside now; avoid windows.”
The university’s updates arrive slowly, so rumors spread. I check Twitter. I get texts. A guy killing people in the quad. Multiple dead in the Genome Science Center. Cops in a firefight. A full-blown massacre. Like Virginia Tech or Columbine or Parkland. It’s finally come for us, I think, and I am preparing to lose friends and students.
My wife texts, “You’re not there, right?”
