Charges pending after gun brought onto MSUM campus

(Moorhead, MN) -- A Minnesota State University Moorhead student may be facing charges after bringing a gun onto campus Tuesday morning.

The Moorhead Police Department tells WDAY Radio that the student was actually caught with the firearm at an off-campus event that was sponsored by the University, but had previously been armed with the weapon earlier while on school grounds.

No shots were fired at all while the student was armed, and there was no violence involved.

Captain Deric Swenson tells us that charges from the incident will be for possession of the weapon, and are not violence-related. They are being forwarded to the county attorney for further evaluation.

The campus did send out an emergency alert notifying students of the weapon, but no other action was taken. There is no perceived threat to students moving forward.