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By Giulia Carbonaro
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A 19-year-old was arrested on Saturday in connection with a shooting at Virginia State University (VSU) that left five people injured and put the campus on lockdown.
The suspect, who was found hiding in a dormitory closet in Seward Hall on the VSU campus by police at 4 p.m. local time, was identified as Camron Harris of Henrico, Virginia. He was not a student at the university, nor were four of the five people wounded, Chesterfield County Police said in a statement shared by the Associated Press.
One victim, a 20-year-old who has since been released from hospital, is a student. The rest of the victims, who have not been identified, range in age from 17 to 23.
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Harris was taken to the Chesterfield County Jail, where police said that they obtained eight felony warrants, including four counts of malicious wounding and four counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. They did not share any possible motive for the shooting.
The 19-year-old is being held without bond. Newsweek reached out to the Chesterfield County Police for more information by email on Sunday early morning, outside of standard working hours.
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What Do We Know About the Shooting?
Law enforcement responded to a report of a shooting at approximately 1:28 a.m. on Saturday at the 3300 block of Boisseau Street. Officers found five people suffering from gunshot wounds outside the university dorms, who were then transported to hospitals in the local area.
One individual—who was not a student at VSU—was in critical condition. The one VSU student who was wounded in the shooting sustained non-life threatening injuries and has been released from the hospital.
The identities of the victims have not been disclosed by police.
The university, which counts more than 5,000 students, was put on lockdown after the incident, though this has now been lifted.
In an update on Saturday, VSU wrote that it continues to work closely with law enforcement and that police will maintain an increased presence on campus as the investigation carries on.
The shooting on Saturday was not the first serious gun violence incident associated with VSU. In November 2023, a university police officer was critically wounded while responding to a disturbance near campus, prompting a lockdown and a multi-agency investigation.
Newsweek contacted VSU for comment by email on Sunday early morning, outside of standard working hours.
Contact Newsweek editors on this story: Ben Kelly and Cristina Diciu.
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