A shooting involving multiple suspects and five people shot at Virginia State University prompted a campus lockdown early Saturday. It happened near the university's Quad Annexes, where campus police and Chesterfield County officers discovered five people suffering from gunshot wounds outside campus dormitories. Officers responded just before 1:30 am and the lockdown was lifted at about 9 am, county police said. The five were transported to hospitals, and one initially listed as having life-threatening injuries has been upgraded to critical condition, county police said. The others sustained non-life-threatening injuries, police said. The university said in a statement that the shooting involves "multiple suspects." The statement asked people to avoid the immediate area. "A significant law enforcement presence remains on campus as the investigation into this morning's shooting continues," the university said after the lockdown was lifted. The campus had a large law enforcement ...
Two people were killed and five others were injured in a shooting in Norfolk, Virginia, police said Sunday. Officers responded to a report of gunfire around midnight. When they arrived, they found four women and three men with gunshot wounds, police said. Zabre Miller, 25, and Angela McKnight, 19, later died at a hospital, police said. Several Norfolk State University students were victims of the shooting at an off-campus location, the university said on its Facebook page. Initial indications are that our students were innocent bystanders of a shooting at an evening house party, the university wrote in the post. NSU also said police secured the campus, and there was no present danger. Detectives were continuing to investigate Sunday, police said.
Local police tweeted they were on the scene and asked people to avoid the area