INITIAL ALERTEmail
Verified verbatimWJBF (NewsChannel 6) quoting the verbatim Augusta University Health notification sent at approximately 12:05 PM EST on February 9, 2018213 chars
There has been a shooting at the Ga War Nursing Home. It appears this was a domestic violence targeted attack. Multiple police agencies are responding. We are no longer treating this as an active shooter incident.
The notification went out at approximately 12:05 PM EST, roughly 35 minutes after the victim was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:30 AM EST, reflecting the time needed to establish that the shooter had fled and the attack was targeted.
AU Health characterized the incident immediately as 'domestic violence' and 'targeted' in the initial alert, a framing choice that signals to recipients that a campus-wide active-shooter response is not required.
The notification explicitly de-escalated — 'We are no longer treating this as an active shooter incident' — quoted verbatim by WJBF, a rare instance of an alert documenting the moment a campus reclassifies an active-shooter report as a targeted domestic-violence crime.