{"id":341540,"date":"2025-12-10T18:54:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/341540\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:54:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:54:04","slug":"kentucky-state-university-student-killed-in-shooting-is-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/341540\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky State University student killed in shooting is identified"},"content":{"rendered":"

The student killed in a Tuesday evening shooting at Kentucky State University<\/a> has been identified as 19-year-old De\u2019Jon Darrell Fox Jr., authorities said. <\/p>\n

The Franklin County Coroner\u2019s Office said in a statement that Fox Jr. was the sole person killed in the shooting that took place on campus. The office said that Fox was a student at the university.<\/p>\n

Fox appeared to have succumbed to the injuries he sustained during the shooting, the coroner’s office said, and was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. The coroner’s office added that full autopsy results will be available in 14 to 16 weeks.<\/p>\n

One other student was left in critical condition from the shooting that occurred around 3:00 p.m., according to authorities. It was unclear what condition the second student was in as of Wednesday afternoon. <\/p>\n

Jacob Lee Bard, a 48-year-old Black man, was arrested at the scene on Tuesday and charged with murder and first-degree assault in connection with the shooting. He is being held without bail, according to Franklin County Jail records.<\/p>\n

KSU did not immediately return a request for comment about the second student’s condition or about Fox.<\/p>\n

“Our students need prayers,” the university president, Koffi Akakpo, said on Tuesday, calling the shooting a “senseless tragedy.” <\/p>\n

The university also said in a statement that it was suspending all classes, final exams and campus activities for the remainder of the week.<\/p>\n

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear addressed the shooting in a video he posted on X<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease, pray. Pray for those that have been injured. Please, pray for these Kentucky State University students that, again, might be rightfully scared. Pray for a world where these things don\u2019t happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

KSU is located in the state’s capital, Frankfort, and has a student body of roughly 2,200, according to its website. <\/p>\n

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Matt Lavietes is a reporter for NBC News.<\/p>\n

Karen Cortes and Tim Stelloh contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The student killed in a Tuesday evening shooting at Kentucky State University has been identified as 19-year-old De\u2019Jon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-341540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}