Armed intruder reported on Florida Atlantic campus Two Florida colleges were on lockdown Thursday as authorities sought an armed intruder reported to be at a university near Miami, the university said. Edgar Zuniga Jr. of NBC News contrinuted to this report. The intruder was believed to be inside the College of Arts and Letters complex on the campus of the Florida Atlantic University, which is in Boca Raton, about 60 miles north of Miami. No shots had been fired, and no injuries had been reported campus police said. The Boca Raton campus of Palm Beach State College, which is near Florida Atlantic, was also on lockdown, security officials told NBC News. Florida Atlantic said the suspect is a black male, about 5 feet, 10 inches tall, with a muscular build, wearing a white shirt and pants. The University Press, the college's student-run magazine, reported on its Twitter account that students in the complex could hear helicopters hovering overhead. I'm scared. FAU houses the crazies," Catherine O'Rourke, a senior design major who was hiding under a table in the Visual Arts building, told the publication. Students, faculty and staff were told to shelter in place, and visitors were told to avoid the campus.