UPDATE: The UA creepy clown alert was a fake

It is not known who is behind the hoax

It has emerged last night’s campus alert warning of “multiple reports of armed and knife wielding clowns” was a fake.

UAPD confirmed to The Tab this afternoon that they “sent out no campus alerts last night” and that they are looking into the clown incident further.It was originally reported that clowns were spotted in the neighborhoods of Coronado and Highland.

Even without any credible basis, some individuals have took it upon themselves to go “clown hunting”, searching for the alleged perpetrators around the campus.

Aside from the incidents occurring on the University of Arizona campus, reported sightings of these individuals dressed as clowns is becoming more and more common at colleges across the nation, along with reports of violence committed by these clowns.

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