{"id":15471,"date":"2025-10-26T09:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/15471\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T09:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:07:13","slug":"1-person-killed-6-wounded-in-shooting-at-lincoln-university-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/15471\/","title":{"rendered":"1 person killed, 6 wounded in shooting at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At least one person was killed and six others wounded in a shooting Saturday night at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Chester County District Attorney Chris de Barrena-Sarobe said in a Sunday morning press conference that the shooting occurred outside the university&#8217;s International Cultural Center during homecoming celebrations following a football game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This is a devastating night,&#8221; Barrena-Sarobe said. &#8220;It was a chaotic scene and people fled in every direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One person was detained and was in possession of a firearm, Barrena-Sarobe said, adding that it was possible that there might be another shooter. Officials do not believe that the incident was a planned mass shooting, the district attorney said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/2-killed-7-critical-condition-north-carolina-mass\/story?id=126860967\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:2 killed, 7 in critical condition in North Carolina mass shooting;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">2 killed, 7 in critical condition in North Carolina mass shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We are investigating with the full power of federal, state and local law enforcement,&#8221; Barrena-Sarobe said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Chester County District Attorney&#8217;s Office said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChesCoDA\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:in an initial statement on social media;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">in an initial statement on social media<\/a> early on Sunday that law enforcement was &#8220;investigating the shooting at Lincoln University&#8221; and had identified seven gunshot victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said in a post to X that he was briefed on the shooting and offered his support to the university.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lincoln University, a historically Black university, is located in the southeastern part of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ABC News&#8217; Jessica Gorman contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least one person was killed and six others wounded in a shooting Saturday night at Lincoln University&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11473,11472,11411,11374,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-15471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-barrena-sarobe","tag-chris-de-barrena-sarobe","tag-lincoln-university","tag-mass-shooting","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}