One killed and six injured after shooting at Pennsylvania’s Lincoln University | Pennsylvania
At least one person was killed and six others were injured late Saturday in a shooting at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania as students and alumni were celebrating homecoming at an outdoor festival at the historically black university, authorities said.
Chester district attorney Christopher de Barrena-Sarobe said at a brief news conference early Sunday that a person with a firearm was in custody and authorities were investigating the possibility of more than one attacker, but they did not believe there was an active threat to the campus.
“We don’t have a lot of answers as to what exactly happened,” he said. “What I will tell you is that today we are acting as if this is not an incident where someone came to a college campus with the intent to cause mass harm.”
Authorities said the shooting occurred around 9:30 p.m. outside a large building called the International Cultural Center. Here, tents and tables were set up for tailgating and socializing after a football game earlier in the day.
“It was a chaotic scene and people ran in all directions,” the district attorney said. He asked anyone who has video of the scene or other information that could assist in the investigation to contact the FBI.
Authorities did not share details about the victims, including their conditions or where the injured were treated.
The campus is approximately 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Philadelphia. Chester County detectives are conducting the investigation with support from state police and the FBI.
Saturday’s shooting was the latest in a disturbing trend of gun violence at homecoming games and celebrations across the country this football season.
on friday, five people were shot near Howard University in Washington, D.C., as the school celebrates graduation weekend. Police later arrested two suspects and seized three guns near the scene. In the statement made by the university, it was stated that the fight between two people resulted in a gunfight.
Howard University officials said in a statement that the violence was not school-related and that no students, faculty or staff were involved in the incident.
High school graduation celebrations in Mississippi were disrupted by gun violence on October 11, which left six people dead and 18 injured in three separate shootings.
The deadliest shooting occurred in Leland, where four people were killed, according to John Lee, mayor of the small city in western Mississippi’s Washington County. At least 16 people were injured in the incident, four of whom were in critical condition were flown to the state capital of Jackson, and 12 others were treated at local hospitals.
Two people were killed in a shooting in Heidelberg, about 200 miles (320 km) southeast of Mississippi, during the local school’s graduation weekend, police said. A third shooting was later reported to have occurred at the South Delta high school in Rolling Fork, just 40 miles south of Leland in the Mississippi delta, injuring two people.
Late Saturday night, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said: social media post He said he was informed of the shooting and offered the support of his management and family.
“Join Lori and me as we pray for the Lincoln University community,” he said.
On a joyous day focused on the school’s legacy, Lincoln University police Chief Marc Partee said the shooting had devastated the school community.
“If there was another word to describe it, it would be more effective, I would use it,” he said, “but ‘destroyed’ is a beginning.”
