Nic Shimonek was in his house, with the Monday Night Football game between the Vikings and Bears on the television, as scrolled through his phone, checking Twitter.

Once the Texas Tech quarterback saw the news, he changed the channel until he found the news — a Texas Tech University police officer was shot and killed at the campus police station in Lubbock on Monday night. The suspect was identified as Hollis Daniels, a 19-year-old freshman from Seguin, according to university spokesman Chris Cook.

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In response to the shooting Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury opened his Tuesday press conference with a statement.

“I’d like to offer our condolences of the family of the fallen officer and the entire Texas Tech police department. We obviously work closely with those guys at Texas Tech PD and it’s a tough situation for everybody involved,” Kingsbury said. “We greatly appreciate the immediate response and communication from our university and all the law enforcement agencies involved that allowed us to be safe. … Our thoughts and prayers are with the victim’s family at this time.”

Kingsbury added that he and the Tech coaches were in close contact with the players throughout the incident, sending out immediate texts to everybody through a program called Teamworks. Also every student and worker on campus received an immediate email of the situation.

“They did a great job texting us, making sure everybody was not on campus, making sure everybody stayed safe,” Shimonek said, “and wherever you were, just find a secure place, don’t go out and try to be a hero or don’t go to the gas station or anything like that, just find a spot, stay safe for the time being, and they’d let us know when everything calmed down, which they did.

“Yeah, luckily I was at the house, I wasn’t on campus.”

Tech defensive back Jah’Shawn Johnson said he was doing homework when he got the message from the football staff.

“I was actually at home doing some homework and got a message on our Teamworks from our athletic department to take shelter and stay inside and make sure we were doing the right thing,” he said.

Texas Tech University System Chancellor Robert Duncan released the statement saying, “Words can’t express how saddened I am by the tragic loss of one of our Texas Tech University police officers tonight …Our Texas Tech family is strong and will support each other as we grieve.”