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The lockdown at the University of Toronto has been lifted although police continue to seek the “man dressed in black” who has prompted so much concern among those who saw him. Roads are now open. In a statement released at around 3:45 p.m., University of Toronto President Meric Gertler thanked community members for their calm response to the investigation. “I also want to extend our thanks to the Toronto Police Service and our Campus Community Police for their fast action and for the care they took to ensure the safety of everyone in the area Chief Saunders has told the public that police have a photo of a suspicious man taken by someone at the U of T Monday morning in connection with the huge police lockdown of the campus which was ongoing at noon. He was dressed all in black and wore what seemed to be a surgical mask. The police net has closed many buildings (list below) and snarled traffic. Trains were bypassing Museum station. The Emergency Task Force also took one man into custody but he does not appear to have been the man in black. Officers walked the man out of the university’s faculty of law building and put him in a cruiser in handcuffs. Police have no idea if the calls (there were several apparently) are well founded but there seems little doubt that people are edgy based on the violence seen over the weekend in Florida. University Avenue and Queen’s Park Crescent are closed from Bloor Street to Hoskin Avenue for the search and the following University of Toronto buildings are closed as well:
- Falconer Hall: 84 Queen’s Park
- Faculty of Law: 78 Queen’s Park
- Trinity College: 6 Hoskin Avenue
- Faculty of Music: Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park
- Munk School of Global Affairs: 1 Devonshire Place
- Gerald Larkin Building: 15 Devonshire Place
- Varsity Centre: 299 Bloor Street West
- All Victoria University buildings
