Feb. 13 (UPI) — Two people are dead and a third is wounded following a shooting on the campus of South Carolina State University, officials said.
The shooting occurred Thursday night in an apartment at the Hugine Suites student residential complex on the university’s campus in Orangeburg, located about 75 miles northwest of Charleston.
The university issued a campus lockdown at about 9:15 p.m., according to officials, who said in a statement that they have asked the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division to investigate.
SLED investigators are on site and investigating the crime, the university said.
Little information about the shooting was immediately available.
“Stop what you’re doing and pray,” Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said in a statement posted to her personal X account following reports of the shooting.
“Join us in prayer for the students, staff and their families. God bless our brave law enforcement responding tonight.”
The identities of the victims have yet to be confirmed, the school said.
As of early Friday, the campus remained on lockdown.
School officials said Friday’s classes were canceled and counselors would be made available to students.
The shooting is the latest at the school since Oct. 4, when one person was killed and a second person was wounded in separate shootings on the historically Black university’s Orangeburg campus.
The deceased victim from one of the October shootings was identified as 19-year-old Jaliyah Butler.