Last updated Tuesday at 2 p.m.The Boone Police Department has confirmed that Monday’s report of a gunman on the campus of Appalachian State University was false.

Boone Police investigators interviewed the person who originally reported the sighting, and the person admitted the story was fabricated, according to ASU’s Web site.

A misdemeanor charge for a false police report has not been filed, but is expected.

Police responded to a report of an armed gunman at ASU Monday afternoon, putting the university on lockdown but lifting the ban later that evening.

The university posted a crime alert online at 4:47 p.m. that day, advising students to avoid the area of suspicion — the Appalachian South Apartments at the Hill Street area and parking lot.

Further information posted to the site, which has now been confirmed as false, said the suspect was a six-foot white male wearing a Pink Floyd t-shirt, a ski mask and a dark jacket, and was “last seen on Hill Street with a small black handgun.”

At 5:10 p.m., the university put all campus buildings on a lockdown, and at 5:24 p.m., all classes for Monday night were cancelled.

Charlie Weeks, a sophomore in music recording and production at Appalachian State University, said he was in his 5 p.m. class when he found out about the situation.

“I don’t know when it happened, but nobody really found out about it until 5:30 [p.m.],” Weeks said.

According to Weeks, that was when professors began hearing about the potential threat.

Weeks said he received an e-mail about the events upon returning from class but said it did not interfere with his day.

“I don’t think that anything really happened,” he said.

Administration then cancelled the emergency alert at 6:32 p.m., lifting the lockdown but leaving the remainder of Monday night’s classes cancelled.

Although police and administration advised students to proceed with caution the following day with police still on the lookout, the university was expected to function as normal Tuesday.