A shooting injured four people at Virginia State University early Wednesday, police said. Two men taken into custody at the shooting scene were charged with brandishing firearms, but they have not been charged in the shooting, police announced Wednesday afternoon. Officers responded to a report of a shooting that occurred in a large crowd at the university south of Richmond around 12:30 am and found two men and two women who had been shot, Chesterfield County Police said in a news release. All four were taken to hospitals with injuries not considered life-threatening, police said. The campus was placed on lockdown until it was deemed safe, the university said in a statement. None of the victims is enrolled for the fall semester, according to university spokesperson Gwen Williams Dandridge. Classes start next week, but freshmen and student leaders are already on campus this week, she said. The two 21-year-old men taken into custody were charged with brandishing a firearm, and one o
Two people were killed in a shooting after a high school graduation ceremony in Virginia's capital, police said. Police also said a 19-year-old who was in custody will be charged with two counts of second-degree murder. A total of seven people were wounded in the shooting. he city's chief said the two who died were both male, ages 18 and 36. Their names were not released, but police believe the suspect knew at least one of the victims. Police recovered multiple handguns. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP's earlier story follows below. RICHMOND, Va.
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Those injured ranged in age from 16 to 21 and were from Chesterfield or nearby localities
The gunman, whose identity has not been released, was killed when police responded to the shooting in the southeastern coastal city of Virginia Beach
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Scalise was struck in the left hip by the gunman and collapsed on the field