I wanted to get in before all the crazy foreigners!
*fondles his pistol*
By Jon Hurdle
DOVER, Delaware (Reuters) - Two students were shot and wounded early on Friday at Delaware State University following an apparent argument, prompting a swift campus lockdown as police hunted for the gunman.
Students at the school in the state capital Dover were told to stay in their dormitories and classes were canceled for the day, the school said in an early morning statement.
Virginia Tech University administrators were criticized for not reacting swiftly following the April shooting when student Seung-Hui Cho gunned down 32 people and then killed himself in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
University spokesman Carlos Holmes said police had identified "two persons of interest" -- both students -- one of whom was already in custody. He told reporters it appeared the shooting followed an argument in a campus cafeteria.
One of the wounded students was a female who had "potentially life-threatening" injuries, while the other, a male, was in "stable condition," at a local hospital, he said. Both are from Washington D.C. The female was shot twice and the male once.
Delaware State University Police Chief James Overton said in a statement that between 8 and 10 students had left a campus cafeteria between midnight and 1 a.m. and "a gun was produced in the area among those people and four to six shots were fired."
Holmes said students were being asked to either remain in their dormitories or leave the campus in an "orderly" fashion.
Alex Bishoff, 20, a university student, said he was working in his ground floor dormitory room when he heard five gunshots. He said that about 15 minutes later authorities told students to remain in their rooms.
"I heard shots on the campus and immediately I started thinking about the Virginia Tech thing," said Bishoff, who had not been stopped from leaving his room to get something to eat. "Everybody's very upset, mad; this is absurd."
The campus was still mourning the August execution-style killing of three returning or incoming students in their hometown of Newark, New Jersey. A fourth student was wounded in that incident.
Holmes said there was no indication of any connection between the two shootings
*fondles his pistol*
By Jon Hurdle
DOVER, Delaware (Reuters) - Two students were shot and wounded early on Friday at Delaware State University following an apparent argument, prompting a swift campus lockdown as police hunted for the gunman.
Students at the school in the state capital Dover were told to stay in their dormitories and classes were canceled for the day, the school said in an early morning statement.
Virginia Tech University administrators were criticized for not reacting swiftly following the April shooting when student Seung-Hui Cho gunned down 32 people and then killed himself in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
University spokesman Carlos Holmes said police had identified "two persons of interest" -- both students -- one of whom was already in custody. He told reporters it appeared the shooting followed an argument in a campus cafeteria.
One of the wounded students was a female who had "potentially life-threatening" injuries, while the other, a male, was in "stable condition," at a local hospital, he said. Both are from Washington D.C. The female was shot twice and the male once.
Delaware State University Police Chief James Overton said in a statement that between 8 and 10 students had left a campus cafeteria between midnight and 1 a.m. and "a gun was produced in the area among those people and four to six shots were fired."
Holmes said students were being asked to either remain in their dormitories or leave the campus in an "orderly" fashion.
Alex Bishoff, 20, a university student, said he was working in his ground floor dormitory room when he heard five gunshots. He said that about 15 minutes later authorities told students to remain in their rooms.
"I heard shots on the campus and immediately I started thinking about the Virginia Tech thing," said Bishoff, who had not been stopped from leaving his room to get something to eat. "Everybody's very upset, mad; this is absurd."
The campus was still mourning the August execution-style killing of three returning or incoming students in their hometown of Newark, New Jersey. A fourth student was wounded in that incident.
Holmes said there was no indication of any connection between the two shootings
