Campus threat closes St. Xavier University

CHICAGO, April 12 (UPI) -- St. Xavier University in Chicago has been closed indefinitely and students were ordered to leave Saturday after a threatened campus shooting, officials said.

St. Xavier officials called in police and the FBI after the threat was found scrawled on a bathroom wall in a freshman co-ed dorm located on the main campus.

Threatening graffiti also was found April 5, but the second message found in the same bathroom was specific: "Be prepared to die on 4/14," the newspaper reported.

"We stepped in immediately, given the post-Virginia Tech climate. We can't take even the most seemingly harmless threats anything less than seriously," said Joe Moore, the university's spokesman.

A gunman killed 32 people, then himself at Virginia Tech April 16, 2007.

Monique Bond, a Chicago police spokeswoman, said no suspects had been identified and no one had been arrested.

"At this point, we're just kind of monitoring and trying to determine if any students are involved," she said.