Updated: Feb. 5, 2014 at 11:19 p.m.

The bullets found in the Media and Public Affairs building Wednesday morning turned out to be part of a journalism class demonstration on crime reporting.

The University Police Department evacuated a Media and Public Affairs classroom after a housekeeper found three bullets there Wednesday morning, a GW spokeswoman said.

Police found no weapons in their search of the basement-level room, which was evacuated around 8 a.m.

“Further investigation revealed a professor had brought the bullets to class as a training tool for a journalism class. MPD was notified,” according to a University release.

Sophomore Sabrina Rush said her news writing professor had brought in the bullets “simply for display purposes” for their class Tuesday afternoon.

“We are learning how to write crime stories, and the demonstration was useful and necessary,” she told The Hatchet on Wednesday.