Vehicle Backfiring Leads to Police Response on MU Campus

Noise near MU campus mistaken for gunfire confirmed as vehicle backfire

Officers searched the area after 911 calls but found no evidence of danger near MU’s campus Monday night.

Vehicle backfiring leads to police response on MU campus

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A vehicle backfiring led to police to respond to an area of the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus on Monday evening. An MU Alert was sent out to students at 8:35 p.m. indicating that officers were responding to a shots-fired call in the 900 block of South Providence Road. The Columbia Police Department wrote in a social media post at 9:25 p.m. that it had received multiple 911 calls “in reference to a report of shots …