Temple University Leaders Convene With Police, Mayor To Develop Strategies To Combat Gun Violence Near Campus
Temple University is stepping up security and adding new strategies to tackle crime.
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Temple University is stepping up security and adding new strategies to tackle crime.
The violence has parents of Temple students on edge as campus police tell CBS3 the department is operating at 60% officer staffing levels.
One suspect was arrested in connection to the first shooting outside of Temple's bookstore on Cecil B. Moore Avenue.
The exceptions will be classrooms, labs, and other in-person class locations. Masks will also be required in healthcare facilities, and on Temple shuttle buses.
JNS Protection Services, the private security company, patrols from Diamond to Berks Streets, between 15 and 19th Streets. Temple's own campus safety patrols most of the same area as well.
Eyewitness News is getting an exclusive look at how Temple's campus police operate.
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Temple University has made some COVID-safety changes for the spring semester, which starts Monday.
Temple University students will now move back onto campus on Jan. 22. due to "the significant increase of the COVID-19 omicron variant throughout the region and the country," according to the university's website.
Classes from Monday, Jan. 3 through Friday, Jan. 21 will be taught virtually.
Drayton spent five years at Texas where he was associate head coach and run game coordinator and has coached for nearly 30 years at all levels of football, including a stint in the NFL.
As police search for those suspects, students say they worry about the crime happening so close to campus.
Students say they're disappointed it took the death of one their own to push for safety changes as they came together to remember and grieve.
Parents of students at Temple University rallied for better security on campus Monday morning.
Latif Williams, a 17-year-old, is in custody and charged in this case.
Loved ones remember Collington, the 21-year-old Temple student, as a kind, caring young man who had a bright future ahead of him.
The gunman is believed to be responsible for as many as four other carjackings, according to information shared with CBS3.
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Rod Carey went 12-20 in his three years at Temple as the head football coach.
The university says it will also place barriers along Cecil B. Moore and Park Avenue to deter drag racing.
Police are now searching for the suspects.
Claire Smith is a 1979 Temple alumna and has been a pioneer for African-American women and people of color in sports media.
Temple University announced Thursday Arthur Johnson has been named the new Vice President and Director of Athletics.
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