UTT Given All-Clear Following Threat

TYLER — Everything got back to normal by mid-afternoon following a brief scare at UT Tyler Friday — which just happened to be commencement day. UTT’s Beverley Golden says a call came in around 1:30 p.m. indicating a male had reported he was going to blow up UTT’s Ratliff Building North. As a precaution, says Golden, the university evacuated Ratliff Building North and adjacent Ratliff Building South. According to Golden, the building was searched, nothing suspicious was found, and the all-clear was issued around 2:50 p.m. Golden couldn’t immediately comment on any possible investigation of the incident. She also said there’s no known connection between Friday’s threat and a similar incident Thursday in which someone threatened to blow up the university. The all-clear was issued in that case as well.