One dead, six injured in shooting at a university in Pennsylvania, one man arrested
CHESTER COUNTY, Pa. (NBC, KYMA) - One person has been killed and six others are hurt after a shooting at Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylvania Saturday night.
Zecqueous Morgan-Thompson of Wilmington, Delaware is currently is custody and facing a charge of carrying a concealed firearm without a license. However, it is not confirmed if the gun, found on his person, was used in the shooting.
The shooting took place outside of the school's International Cultural Center during a homecoming weekend event at 9:30 p.m. Saturday, prompting chaos.
A 25-year old man, identified as Jujuan Jeffers from Wilmington, Delaware, passed away after being shot in the head, and six others were wounded, but are expected to survive.
"One of the gunshot victims is a current student at Lincoln University. One is an alum. The rest of their affiliation is not direct with the university. At this time, all of those victims are expected to survive. They all span are in the same age range, 20 to 25-years-old," said Christopher de Barrena-Sarobe, District Attorney for Chester County.
During a press conference Sunday evening, de Barrena-Sarobe said investigators believe there were multiple shooters at the event.
"We are also going to reiterate what we said last night, right, that we're operating under the belief that the shooter, or shooters, in this case, did not come here with a specific disease cause a mass casualty event. We believe they would have operated differently, and so we're treating this as a shooting that broke out in the middle of homecoming weekend."
Christopher de Barrena-Sarobe, Chester County District Attorney
They are asking for the public to come forward with any information including pictures or video from that night to help piece together what happened.
De Barrena-Sarobe said the university will be closed Monday.
"There's going to be an event here for the students and for the community. So there's services being offered to the students," he added.
