WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — School officials say one student is dead and another wounded after a shooting at Winston-Salem State University.
The university said Sunday a suspected gunman is on the loose and visitors to the campus should stay away.
University spokesman Aaron Singleton says the slaying victim was 19-year-old Anthony White Jr., a second-year student from Charlotte.
White’s mother says he was studying information technology. Xavier Martin of Charlotte told The Associated Press that she doesn’t know what led to the shooting.
Police said a second student hit by gunfire received hospital treatment but was released early Sunday. His name and condition were being withheld.
The shooting was reported around 1:20 a.m. Sunday near some dormitories. The campus was locked down for about three hours.
Singleton says police have a suspect, but wouldn’t provide other information.
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AMERICA, WE ARE BETTER THAN THIS!
SO LETS STOP THE MADNESS!
We can’t wait to bring about sensible gun laws in this country. Over 30,000 citizens are killed in gun violence in the 2014…however, we don’t yet know how many citizens our police departments have killed in the same time frame…that has got to change too!
NRA defenders will helpfully point out that guns kill less people than smoking in this, the heart of tobacco country.
At he risk of stating the obvious smokers kill themselves. People with guns are killing others. But then, I never heard anyone accusing the NRA defenders of being too bright.
Observe the safety and security guns have brought us. It’s remarkable.
Thanks, NRA!!!
A lot of those 30,000 are suicides, and not a few are accidental self-shootings. And smokers kill their families with the poisons and carcinogens they spew. Nonetheless, there are an appalling number of murders and accidental killings by and of children. You have a good point, but perhaps should be careful not to leave it open to easy criticism that obscures it.