Grace Kai, a student at a nearby college, said that "strangers had been spotted in Garissa town and were suspected to be terrorists", and then "on Monday our college principal told us… that strangers had been spotted in our college"; on Tuesday, while the college closed and sent its students home, the university which remained open was attacked.
临近大学的一名学生格雷斯·凯表示，“加里萨城有陌生人被怀疑是恐怖分子”，随后“在星期一（3月30日）我们的大学校长告诉我们......那陌生人已经在我们的大学里发现”，周二，大学关闭，学生被送回家，仍然开门的学校遭到袭击。