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“We don’t have specific locations that we are looking (at) yet
as we are working on identifying them,” Lamb said in an email
response to questions from The Associated Press.
The shooting, at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, prompted a campus
lockdown and came as students were getting ready for the new
school year. It happened near the university’s Quad Annexes,
where campus police and Chesterfield County officers found five
people with gunshot wounds outside campus dormitories.
Many students had just completed the university’s “New Trojans
Experience” for incoming students. Classes resume Monday.
A suspect was found in a dormitory closet and arrested more than
14 hours after the shooting — and several hours after university
officials already had lifted a campus lockdown, saying that law
enforcement did not believe there was an immediate threat.
The AP left email and telephone messages with Virginia State
University administrators.
Camron Harris, 19, of Henrico, Virginia, was being held without
bond in the Chesterfield County jail. He is due in state court
Monday to face four counts of malicious wounding and four counts
of using a firearm in the commission of a felony.
It could not be immediately determined if Harris has an attorney
who could speak on his behalf, and efforts to reach his family
by phone were unsuccessful.
Virginia State University is a historically Black university
located in Ettrick, Virginia, about 24 miles (39 kilometers)
south of the state capital of Richmond. The public university
has about 5,700 students and was the first fully state-supported
four-year college for Black Americans. Most of its students are
undergraduates.
The victims ranged in age from 17 to 23 and only one of them was
a student at the university, according to police. Harris was not
a student, police said.
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