A student has died and another is stable but critical after a shooting at Kentucky State University (KSU), officials say. <\/p>\n
A suspect, who is not a student at the school, is in custody after the incident on the campus in Frankfort, the city’s police department said.<\/p>\n
KSU was placed on lockdown on Tuesday afternoon as authorities said they were responding to “an active aggressor”. The incident occurred in a residence hall on the south side of campus, KSU said.<\/p>\n
Police said the campus shooting appeared to be isolated, not a mass shooting.<\/p>\n
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear was the first to share the news, posting on X: “Violence has no place in our commonwealth or country. Let’s please pray for the families affected and for our KSU students. <\/p>\n
“Let’s also pray for a world where these things don’t happen. Thank you to our brave law enforcement who acted quickly to protect our people.”<\/p>\n
Frankfort Police Department, KSU campus police and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office responded to the shooting. <\/p>\n
In a press conference Tuesday evening, Frankfort Police Department’s assistant police chief Scott Tracy said campus police had taken “swift action” and arrested the suspect before authorities arrived to the scene.<\/p>\n
Local, state and federal agencies are now assisting in the investigation, he said. <\/p>\n
“Out of respect for both students and their families, the University will not release identifying or additional medical information at this time,” KSU said on its website. <\/p>\n
“We are in close contact with the families and are providing every available support to them.”<\/p>\n
The university has cancelled classes, final exams and campus activities for the rest of the week, according to its website, and is offering students the choice of returning home. <\/p>\n
Speaking at the press conference, KSU President Koffi C. Akakpo called the shooting a “senseless tragedy”.<\/p>\n
“As a parent, I cannot imagine receiving the call I placed today to the parents,” he said. <\/p>\n
Counselling and support services are being offered to students, faculty and staff affected by the shooting, the university’s website says. <\/p>\n
The KSU campus covers about 1,000 acres, and has more than 2,200 students and 450 faculty and staff members, according to its website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A student has died and another is stable but critical after a shooting at Kentucky State University (KSU),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-335805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}