UI police determine man only had toy gun

URBANA – University of Illinois police detained a Champaign man with a toy gun on campus Wednesday afternoon.

Interim Chief Jeff Christensen said officers questioned a 26-year-old man about 3:20 p.m. Wednesday after being sent to the Quad on a report of a man with a gun. The man is not a UI student, he said.

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