FRANKFORT, United States: At the least one scholar was killed and one other was critically wounded in a capturing at a residence corridor at Kentucky State College on Tuesday (Dec 9), and a suspect was in custody, officers stated.
Police in Frankfort, the state’s capital metropolis, stated the campus was on lockdown. Video from WLKY-TV in Louisville confirmed a number of police automobiles exterior a cluster of dormitories and crime scene tape in a courtyard.
One scholar who was shot on the residence corridor, Whitney M Younger Jr. Corridor, is in vital situation however is steady, based on the college. The college shouldn’t be instantly releasing the names of the scholars.
“We’re in shut contact with the households and are offering each obtainable help to them,” the varsity stated in a press release, including that counselling and help providers can be found.
Frankfort police stated they responded to an incident involving “an energetic aggressor” and that the campus was secured. Authorities deliberate to launch extra info at a night information convention.
Govenor Andy Beshear stated in a video message posted on the social media website X that the capturing “seems to be an remoted incident” and that “there isn’t any ongoing menace”.
“Violence has no place in our commonwealth or nation. Let’s please pray for the households affected and for our KSU college students. Let’s additionally pray for a world the place these items don’t occur,” he stated.
Kentucky State College is a public traditionally Black college with about 2,200 college students. Lawmakers authorised the varsity’s creation in 1886.
The college sits about 3.2km east of the Capitol constructing.
