Shooting at North Carolina university leaves 1 dead, 6 injured

One idiosyncratic was killed and six injured during an overnight shooting astatine Elizabeth City State University, a historically Black assemblage successful North Carolina.

The shooting took spot successful the aboriginal hours of Sunday greeting astatine the halfway of field pursuing events for “Viking Fest,” a week of schoolhouse tone events, according to a connection from the university.

A 24-year-old man, who was not an Elizabeth City State University student, was killed, according to the statement. His individuality is being withheld until his adjacent of kin tin beryllium notified.

Additionally, six radical were injured, 4 of them with gunshot wounds, the connection said. Three of the gunshot victims were Elizabeth City State University students. None of the injuries are life-threatening and each victims were transported to a infirmary for treatment, according to the university.

The assemblage instituted a field lockdown and a shelter-in-place bid for each students aft the shooting, which was lifted aboriginal connected Sunday.

“The assemblage is profoundly saddened by this senseless act,” an update from the assemblage said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families, and each members of the Viking assemblage affected by this tragedy.”

The assemblage said determination is nary contiguous menace to the field community. The merchandise didn’t see immoderate accusation astir whether a fishy oregon suspects had been identified. CNN has reached retired to the Elizabeth City Police Department for much information.

The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is investigating the incidental alongside section authorities, according to a connection shared with CNN. The bureau asked members of the nationalist to taxable “any information, videos oregon pictures” related to the shooting.

The incidental comes much than a week aft a deadly field shooting astatine Florida State University, wherever 2 radical were killed and six others were injured aft authorities accidental a pupil and lad of a section sheriff’s lawman allegedly opened occurrence connected the university’s Tallahassee campus.

Elizabeth City State University – portion of the University of North Carolina strategy – enrolls a small implicit 2,000 students. The assemblage is located connected North Carolina’s coast, astir 60 miles southwest of Virginia Beach.

CNN’s Devon Sayers and Sarah Dewberry contributed to this report.

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