Five people were injured, one critically, in a shooting outside Virginia State University dormitories that prompted a campus-wide lockdown for hours early Saturday morning, according to authorities.
When police arrived, they found five people suffering from gunshot wounds outside VSU dorms. Officials with the university said the shooting happened near the Quad Annexes.
VSU officials confirmed the shooting involved multiple suspects in a post to social media just before 6 a.m.
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.
Virginia State University is a historically Black university located in Ettrick, Virginia, about 24 miles 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 shootings happened just before the start of the academic year at Virginia State.