Man seen with rifle near WWU early Tuesday

Classes continued as usual Tuesday at Western Washington University, but with extra police presence, after an early morning manhunt failed to locate an apparently armed man who approached a WWU shuttle bus driver two blocks south of the main campus in the Happy Valley neighborhood.

Bellingham Police and Western Washington University officers searched the campus and surrounding areas after the bus driver reported seeing a man with a gun who said he had to “take care of” some “bad people” shortly after 4 a.m.