Update: UVa lifts shelter-in-place order, fugitive still on the run

"Suspect believed to have left the area," according to a UVa Emergency Management alert sent at 1:42 p.m. "Police remain on scene. Classes will resume on Wednesday."

UVa faculty, staff and students as well as doctors and patients at UVa Medical Center were urged to shelter in place Tuesday morning as police combed the area for a man who fled an off-Grounds traffic stop earlier in the day.

"Police are looking for a suspect, Nyheem Hill, last seen in the area of Alderman Road, who fled following an off-Grounds traffic stop near Ivy Road and has a known criminal history and gang affiliation," UVa spokeswoman Bethanie Glover said in a statement issued at 9:57 a.m. "The suspect has no known affiliation with the University. All UVA community members should continue to shelter in place until further notice."

Police described Hill as a Black man standing 6-foot-1, weighing 170 pounds and wearing a gray, hooded sweatshirt in an alert sent at 10:47 a.m. Anyone who sees Hill has been asked to call 911.

Police scanner activity indicates Hill was involved in a multiple-vehicle collision earlier in the morning Tuesday.

Virginia State Police reported that a trooper attempted to pull over a Chevrolet Impala with an expired inspection sticker around 8:13 a.m.  

"The suspect took the Ivy Road exit, slowed, and fled from the vehicle while it was still in drive," state police said in a statement. "The Impala then struck a State Police vehicle and at least one other vehicle. There were no injuries."

The suspect, believed to be Hill, then fled on foot to the University Heights, or U-Heights, apartment complex, state police said.

As of 10:10 a.m., police had established a perimeter around the apartment complex and helicopters were flying overhead.

By 11 a.m. the search had been expanded to the entire Lewis Mountain neighborhood.

By 12:26 p.m. police expanded their search to all of Central Grounds.

By 1:42 p.m. police believed Hill had left the area.

The suspect has been confirmed to be the "Nyeem Hill" who was sentenced to 14 months behind bars last July in a Charlottesville court for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Hill had been found the prior November livestreaming from a playground near the Westhaven public housing project in the city carrying a pair of weapons, an assault rife and a pistol.

Hill had previously been convicted after he was involved in a shootout and received a stolen vehicle, all before he turned 18.

Hill was in court on Dec. 12, when prosecutors dropped a malicious wounding charge against him stemming from a July 10 attack on another inmate at Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. The prosecution cited an uncooperative victim in its reasoning. Hill left court smiling.

He was released from jail four days later.

UVa sent its first in a series of alerts Tuesday at 9:04 a.m. urging people near Alderman Road to avoid the area due to "fire/police activity."

At 9:18 a.m., UVa sent a second alert: "Police are looking for a suspect in the area. Shelter in place."

The shelter-in-place order was expanded to include UVa Medical Center at 10:02 a.m.

"No shots fired, no injuries," the university reported at 10:06 a.m.

All academic classes at UVa were canceled "until further notice," the university said at 10:22 a.m.

A meeting of the UVa Board of Visitors, scheduled for 1 p.m., was moved from the university Rotunda to the Boar's Head Resort just outside Charlottesville city limits.

UVa announced Tuesday afternoon that its home opener baseball game against Virginia Military Institute, scheduled for 3 p.m., has been postponed "with no updated first pitch time set yet."

Charlottesville City Schools announced Tuesday morning that all classes would be conducted indoors.

This is a developing story.