Five people were shot at Morgan State University in Baltimore Tuesday night and police have yet to locate a suspect, officials said as the investigation continues into the shooting that sent students running and sheltering in place.
Four of the victims are Morgan University students, according to Morgan State University Police Chief Lance Hatcher. The victims, four men and one woman aged 18 to 22, were taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries, Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said in a media briefing.
The chaos unfolded as a popular homecoming week event was letting out Tuesday night at the university – an HBCU in northeast Baltimore. The gunfire forced orders for students and teachers to shelter in place for hours as a SWAT team combed through a student dorm building.
Argonne Drive borders Morgan State University.
Baltimore police were being supported by agents from the Baltimore Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The shooting happened shortly after an event to crown Mister & Miss Morgan State at the Murphy Fine Arts Center, as students were heading to a coronation ball. City Council member Ryan Dorsey said earlier on X that “it’s believed there were three shooters firing into the crowd.” Worley said at the news conference that investigators didn’t know how many shooters were involved.
Worley said police heard gunshots and several dorm windows shattered, so officials initially thought there was an active shooter on campus and followed appropriate protocols. He said they ended the shelter-in-place order around 12:30 a.m. after SWAT officers cleared a building where a suspect may have run.
Blackwood said his son was sheltering in place in the arts center’s auditorium. He sang in the ceremony and was planning to host a prayer service afterward.
“That’s my son. He’s going to make sure I know he’s OK,” Blackwood said. “It’s just sad. They were doing a good thing – an event to promote positivity – and all this negativity happens.”
The university with an enrolment of about 9,000 students was founded in 1867 as the Centenary Biblical Institute, with an initial mission of training men for ministry, according to its website. It moved to its current site in north-east Baltimore in 1917 and was bought by the state of Maryland in 1939 as it aimed to provide more opportunities for Black citizens.
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