Suspect in custody after Kentucky State College capturing leaves 1 lifeless : NPR

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Hannah Brown/The State Journal/AP FRANKFORT, Ky. — Not less than one pupil was killed and one other was critically wounded in a capturing at a residence corridor at Kentucky State College on Tuesday, and a suspect who will not be a pupil on the college was in custody, officers mentioned.

The capturing occurred round 3 p.m. and was an "remoted incident," Scott Tracy, assistant chief of police for Frankfort, mentioned throughout a information convention Tuesday night. Tracy mentioned police swiftly responded to the capturing.

"There aren't any energetic security considerations on campus at the moment," he mentioned. No further details about the suspect was instantly offered by police.

Video from WLKY-TV in Louisville confirmed a number of police autos outdoors a cluster of dormitories and crime scene tape in a courtyard on the college in Frankfort, the state's capital metropolis.

One pupil who was shot on the residence corridor, Whitney M. Younger Jr. Corridor, is in crucial situation however is secure, in response to the college. The college will not be instantly releasing the names of the scholars.

"We're in shut contact with the households and are offering each obtainable assist to them," the varsity mentioned in a press release, including that counseling and assist providers can be found.

Gov. Andy Beshear mentioned in a video message posted on X that the capturing "seems to be an remoted incident" and that "there isn't any ongoing menace."

"Violence has no place in our commonwealth or nation. Let's please pray for the households affected and for our KSU college students. Let's additionally pray for a world the place this stuff do not occur," he mentioned.

Lessons, ultimate exams and campus actions on the college have been canceled for the remainder of the week, in response to the varsity. The autumn time period was scheduled to finish Friday, in response to the varsity web site.

"College students could return dwelling in the event that they select," the varsity mentioned in a press release. "Further steerage will probably be communicated as quickly as attainable."

College President Koffi C. Akakpo referred to as it a "mindless tragedy."

"We're mourning the lack of one in all our college students," he mentioned in the course of the information convention Tuesday night. "As a dad or mum I can't think about receiving the decision I positioned at present to the mother and father."

The capturing was the second in 4 months in the identical space of the college.

Somebody fired a number of photographs from a automobile close to the identical residence corridor on Aug. 17, putting two those that the college mentioned weren't college students. Frankfort police mentioned one sufferer was handled for minor accidents and a second sustained severe accidents. The dorm and no less than one automobile have been broken by gunfire.