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Five injured in shooting at Virginia State University with multiple suspects - BBC
World8/15/20261 min read
Police responded to reports of a shooting outside a residence halls at about 01:28 local time (05:28 GMT) on Saturday.
✨ Key Highlights
- A teenager, Camron Harris, 19, of Henrico, Virginia, was arrested after being found hiding in a closet on campus following an early-morning shooting at Virginia State University (VSU) on Saturday.
- Five people were shot in the incident, which occurred outside a residence hall at about 01:28 local time; Harris is not a student at the university.
- A 21-year-old man remains in critical condition, while the other four victims, aged between 17 and 23, sustained non-life-threatening injuries and were taken to local hospitals.
- Only one of the five victims was a VSU student, according to police.
- Lt James R Lamb of the Chesterfield County Police Department said authorities believed multiple assailants were involved in the shooting.
- VSU, located south of Richmond, is one of the country's historically black universities with more than 5,000 students; the shooting came as dormitories opened for returning students on Friday, with classes for the new term due to begin Monday.
Five individuals, who were all found with gunshot wounds, were taken to local hospitals. Four had injuries that were not deemed to be life-threatening, according to the VSU, which is one of the count