Photo by: 57 p.m. and students, faculty and staff were permitted to reenter the building at 4

The Daniels College of Business was evacuated Monday afternoon because of a bomb threat made directly to a DCB staff member.

The bomb threat remains under investigation by DU Campus Safety and Denver police. Campus Safety and police have identified a suspect, but they have not made any arrests regarding the threat.

The suspect confronted the DCB staff member by making veiled threats regarding the presence of a bomb before 3 p.m. yesterday. The suspect had been in the building earlier in the day, according to Tyrone Mills, associate director of Campus Safety.

The suspect had not made any threats prior to today, said Mills.

Campus Safety did not issue a text, phone call or e-mail alert to the DU community regarding the bomb threat. Denver investigative police officers at District 3 could not be reached for comment.

“Campus Safety will step up their patrols in that particular area [of campus] to prevent the individual from coming back to campus or that building,” said Mills.

Campus Safety and police responded after they received the notification from the DCB staff member. A few hundred or so students, faculty and staff were evacuated after Campus Safety pulled the fire alarm in the building.

Once the building was empty, the officers checked the building floor by floor but did not find an incendiary device.

“The fire alarm went off at 3:57 p.m. We evacuated before class started,” said senior Lauren Black, who was sitting in the classroom on the third floor of DCB, waiting for her 4 p.m. class, Not-for-Profit and Governmental Accounting, to start.

Black and her classmates evacuated immediately.

“[Once outside] we kept watching to see who showed up,” she said. “Everyone filed out. We thought it was weird that parking services showed up; the cops showed up. We didn’t hear that it was a bomb threat until everyone got out.”

After the safety officers cleared the building, some students and faculty were permitted to return to class at 4:50 p.m.

“We were getting our tests back,” said Black. “Out of 40 students, only 10 to 15 left [after the evacuation]. Most of the people in the class stuck around because they are so committed to the accounting major.”

This is the second bomb threat DU has received in four years. In February 2007, almost exactly four years ago, someone had called in a bomb threat for Sturm Hall.