Videos online show police entering dorms at Morgan State University after at least one gunman opened fire on the campus.
Five people aged between 18 and 22 were shot after the incident on Tuesday night on the Baltimore, Maryland, HBCU campus. Police said four victims attended the school, and all suffered non-life-threatening injuries. They were identified as four males and one female.
During a news conference early Wednesday morning, Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said campus police heard “discharge” at about 9.25 p.m. and found the victims “within seconds.” The university and law enforcement urged students to shelter in place or avoid the area. A freshman told Fox Baltimore that when he heard the “bangs,” he went into hiding: “I had a lot of adrenaline, but I had to stay calm,” Jordan Gibson said.
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The shooting took place during homecoming week for the historically Black university. That night was the homecoming court ritual, the coronation of Mister and Miss Morgan State.
“We learned that multiple windows shattered and made our officers believe possibly we had an active shooter, so we immediately put our emergency response for an active shooter in place,” Worley said. “The area was cordoned off; we set up a command post. We secured several areas. BPD SWAT as well as members from our federal, local and other jurisdictions came to assist us as we cleared the buildings to make sure we did not have an active shooter.”
Worley also said that the agency is waiting for ballistics results to determine if more than one gun was fired, The Baltimore Sun reports. The police think three people were armed during the incident.
The suspect remains at large, and authorities are still investigating. Details are preliminary. On social media, students shared videos of officers going door-to-door.
One video shows armed officers announcing themselves and telling a student to walk…
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