East Carolina University NC Lockdown

East Carolina University is on lockdown following reports of an armed gunman near the campus.

ABC reports:

East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C. is on lockdown following a security camera sighting of a man believed to be carrying an assault weapon, a backpack and a cowboy hat.

“The ECU police are systematically sweeping the campus as they continue to investigate the reports of an armed suspect on the corner of 5th and Read around 10 a.m.,” ECU news services office spokeswoman Jeannine Manning-Hutson told ABCNews.com.

Manning-Hutson said Greenville police spotted a man on a security cameras “with an assault rifle, a backpack and wearing a cowboy hat” and reported the sighting to the ECU police.

There have been no reports of shooting and the ECU police is working with the Greenville Police Department and the Pitt County Sheriff’s Department in investigate the sighting.

At 10:11 a.m., the school sent out an alert reporting an armed individual and the instructions to “secure offices and buildings.”