Marshalls evacuated at Springfield shopping center after bomb threat call
A bomb threat emptied Marshalls at Springfield’s Shoppes at Gateway, then a UO K-9 cleared the store and shoppers were sent back inside.
A bomb threat called into Marshalls at the Shoppes at Gateway sent shoppers and employees out of the Springfield store just after 1:50 p.m. Saturday, interrupting weekend traffic at one of the city’s busiest retail centers. Springfield police evacuated the building, then brought in an explosives-detection K-9 team from the University of Oregon Police Department to search it.
The threat came in as an anonymous phone call to a store employee, who was told a bomb had been placed inside the Marshalls at 3000 Gateway St. Employees and customers were moved out before the search began. Police said the K-9 team cleared the store and shoppers were allowed to return after the all-clear was given.
The incident remained under investigation Sunday. No device was reported found, and the store reopened to normal activity after the evacuation. The response showed how quickly a call like this can disrupt a busy retail corridor where families, workers, and weekend shoppers are moving through the property.
The Marshalls sits inside The Shoppes at Gateway, the long-running shopping center next to Interstate 5 that opened in 1990. One current hours listing shows the Marshalls store is normally open Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., which meant the evacuation hit during a peak shopping window.
The center’s own directory describes it as a family-style shopping, entertainment, and dining destination, and a recent Register-Guard report put annual traffic at about 8.3 million visitors. That scale helps explain why even a short shutdown can ripple through Springfield’s east side, from delayed shoppers to interrupted store operations and extra pressure on police and parking lots around Gateway.
The Springfield response also came after another local bomb-threat evacuation earlier in June at Hayward Field, where University of Oregon police and partner agencies searched the site and found nothing of concern. In both cases, the same local K-9 resources were used to quickly check the scene and clear the public back in.
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