DOVER, Del.
Two students were shot and wounded, one seriously, at Delaware State University early Friday, and the campus was locked down as police searched for a gunman, officials said.
Classes were canceled for the day and students were being kept inside.
“They’ve been directed to stay in their dorms,” university spokesman Carlos Holmes said. “We don’t know where the shooter’s at.”
At the university’s main entrance, swing-arm gates were down to prevent people from driving onto campus.
The students were shot near the Memorial Hall gymnasium around 1 a.m., according to a news release on the university’s Web site.
Holmes said the female student appeared to have suffered serious wounds. “They could be potentially life-threatening,” he said. The male student’s wounds were not as serious and he was hospitalized in stable condition, Holmes said.
Police hoped to find out more information once the victims were able to talk.
