Shooting at Morgan State University leaves 5 wounded, Baltimore police say
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Police block off an entrance to Morgan State University following a shooting on Tuesday in Baltimore, Maryland. Photo: Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty Images
Police in Baltimore said a mass shooting at Morgan State University on Tuesday night left five people wounded. The conditions of those shot were not life-threatening, police said.
The big picture: Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said at a news conference that investigators had yet to locate a suspect, but a shelter-in-place order was lifted early Wednesday after it was determined the active-shooter situation had ended.
- "We didn't open the campus up until our SWAT team had cleared the building where the suspect may have ran, or where we thought the shot came from," he said.
- "They cleared every single floor twice and after that we realized the campus was most likely safe."
Zoom in: Worley said campus police on patrol heard gunshots at about 9:25pm and they found multiple victims were shot.
- Four men and one woman whose ages range from 18 to 22 were hospitalized with injuries, said Worley, who noted that four of those wounded were students.
- The university in an online post on Tuesday night urged people to "stay clear of the area surrounding Thurgood Marshall Hall and the Murphy Fine Arts Center and shelter in place" if in that region due to "shots being fired on or near campus."
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Baltimore office said in an online post that its agents were assisting police.
Of note: The shooting came hours after students at the historically Black university celebrated the crowning of the Mister & Miss Morgan State University 2023-2024 at the college's arts center.
- Nearly 9,000 students enrolled at the college in the fall last year.
By the numbers: There have been 531 mass shootings in the U.S. this year as of Wednesday morning, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
- The independent research and data collection organization defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more people were shot or killed, not including the shooter.
Go deeper: U.S. surpasses 500 mass shootings in 2023
Editor's note: This article has been updated with new details throughout.
