UPDATE: Suspect arrested in campus shooting
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More violence touches Delaware State University.
Less than a month ago, the school year began in mourning.
Delaware State University will start the school year on a somber note this week as the campus community comes together for the first time to remember two students and a friend who were killed near their homes in Newark, N.J., earlier this month.
The remembrance service is scheduled for 5 p.m. Tuesday at the theater in the Education & Humanities Center on the Dover campus.
Dashon Harvey, 20, Terrance Aeriel, 18, and Iofemi Hightower, 20, were shot execution-style Aug. 4 behind a school in Newark, N.J. Harvey and Aeriel were students at DSU. Hightower planned to begin taking classes there this fall. Aeriel’s sister, 19-year-old Natasha, was shot but survived. She also attends Delaware State.
Six suspects have been charged with multiple counts of murder and robbery in the case, which has drawn national attention.
Speakers at Tuesday’s service, which is not open to the public, will include friends of the students and school officials. There will be a presentation to the victims’ families and DSU’s band, of which the Aeriels’ were members, will perform, spokesman Carlos Holmes said.
Thankfully, Friday's shootings haven't resulted in students' deaths, but two were shot on campus.
Two students were shot at Delaware University overnight, prompting Friday's classes to be cancelled.
From the Delaware State University website:
Classes on the Dover campus of Delaware State University have been canceled for Friday, Sept. 21 in the wake of an early morning shooting at the institution that has left two students wounded and a suspect at large. All non-essential personnel are directed not to report to work on this day.
The primary priorities of the University at the point are the safety of the residential student population and the DSU Police investigation of the shooting. DSU Police Department with the assistance of the Dover Police Department are working toward the apprehension of the suspect.
The university is implementing a plan to provide essential services to its residential population on campus. Because the suspect is still at large, residential students are directed to remain in their residence halls for their safety until further notice.
At approximately 12:54 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 21, the Delaware State University Police Department was notified of an incident in which two students were shot on campus near Memorial Hall. A single male suspect is being sought, but has not yet been apprehended. The investigation is continuing with the assistance of other local police.
A male student and a female student were transported to hospitals within the state. The male student is in stable condition, however, the female student’s injuries are considered serious.
University personnel and students can check of updates on this situation through the DSU Website (www.desu.edu) and through the DSU Snow Phone # at (302) 857-SNOW (7669).
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the DSU Police at 857-6290 or the DSU TIPS Line at 857-7918.
Here's more.
The campus of Delaware State University is on lockdown while police search for a suspect in the shooting of two students Friday.
...Officials said two students, a male and a female, were transported to an area hospital after the shooting. The male is said to be in stable condition, while Holmes said the female’s injuries could be considered life-threatening.
Holmes said residents on campus have been asked to remain in their dorms as the suspect in the shooting remains at large.
At this point, there are more questions than answers.
Specifics on the victims' conditions are few.
In addition to the shock of the shootings is the unnerving reality that the suspect remains at large. That's hard on the students and their families, and all campus employees.
Hopefully, the suspect will be apprehended soon and the victims will recover from their injuries.
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4 comments:
Here is what most people don't know.
This is making news for 2 reasosn:
A: The mess at Virginia Tech triggered an awareness in the country about this type of crime
B: You havent been told about the other stuff that goes on there.
Look up police records and you will find rapes, shootings and robberies all listed from an apartment complex that houses Del State students right across the street from this campus on State College Road. This is nothing new to us locals..It is always par for the course here. Turthfully we are now numb to the fact that we have a campus of college students that like nothing better than to beat each other up in the name of "respect".
It not just this college either, the other one up the road from us Univ of DE is just as bad, sans the shootings. They have their fair share of rapes, robberies and beatings also.
For me, the only college I never hear about here is Wesley. It seems as though they have taken the cream of the crop so to speak and have weeded out the dangerous, inflammatory and just plain lunatic to form a campus that is quiet and well behaved. As it should be.
It is my sense that Universities refuse to accept responsibility for students on the mistaken grounds that the students are "off campus" so we cannot control them, first the admissions offices are clearly compromising standards as that is the only way you end-up with a student body that is engaged in activities that put themselves and fellow campus members at risk as opposed to a student body that is is more preoccupied with academic affairs and achievement, and all that is too bad because if the demographics of these students are reviewed one can readily see that their only chance of breaking out of their present financially limited situation legitimately is through achievement academically, but as is always the case the biggest asset spends the easiest, second the administrations have failed to implement proactive policies and outreach to be in contact with their populations so there is really no administrative understanding of whether they've admitted a rapist or a robber or a dealer or some other form of monster until it is way too late. Look at these lost souls who are little heroes struck down at too tender an age and they are a reminder that these lofty campus administrators are doing only half their jobs and that neglect brings sad losses. Blessing to the families and friends of the lives lost.
In response to what hellen said,
I am not sure how old you are, or if you are college-educated, but fights, rapes, and burglaries happen on every single campus EVERYWHERE. To say that these occurences are only on Delaware State or Univ. of Delaware campuses is both irresponsible, inaccurate, and biased.
Furthermore, I surely hope you aren't white...especially because you're perpetuating a stereotype that Delaware State, which is a HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE and has majority BLACK students, have "thugs" and not talented, gifted, young minds that are attempting to achieve a degree in higher education, which, if you knew any better, isn't what many young Blacks are doing these days.
My suggestion is that you seriously fall back. Become more knowledgeable on the topic you wish to speak on, and stop being so damn miopic in your way of thinking.
this shooting, along with Virginia Tech, is just another example of the lack of serious security on the college campuses of America. Black, White, or whatever, violence lives on our campuses, and is getting worse, and security has not been able to keep up.
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