Station Newscast Goes to Color Bars After Intruder Enters Station

KRQE (Albuquerque, New Mexico) newscast suddenly went silent and color bars on Sunday after a man entered the station unauthorized.

KRQE went off the air for roughly an hour-and-a-half  after the intruder entered its building.

Of course, this comes just days after a man entered a newspaper office in Maryland and murdered 5 people with a gun. 

KRQE Reporter Madeline Schmitt tweeted out this message. 

Later the station released this statement. 

"An unauthorized person entered our building Sunday night and police were called. Our broadcast operations had to cease while police searched the premises a little more than an hour and a half later police gave us the all clear and we were able to continue our broadcast operations."

Word is the police are still searching for the suspect. As to how he gained entry to the building? The station has not yet commented. 

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