The University of Chicago plans to review its emergency text-messaging system following the slaying of a doctoral student near the campus this week, according to the Chicago Tribune.
University officials notified students of the death nine hours after the victim, Amadou Cisse, 29, was shot while walking to his off-campus home at about 1:30 on Monday morning. About an hour before the shooting, there were two other attacks against Chicago students and campus staff members. A campus-safety group and some students have said the university waited too long.
On Tuesday a spokeswoman for the university said administrators had not alerted students in the middle of the night because they had not yet gathered enough facts about the fatal shooting. —Eric Hoover
