2 NC university students shot, killed at party

GREENSBORO, NC (AP) — The Latest on the shooting deaths of two North Carolina university students (all times local):

11 a.m.

Greensboro police say two students at North Carolina A&T State University were killed during a shooting at a large party.

Police say in a news release that someone began firing a gun during an altercation that started shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday. Police say 19-year-old Alisia Dieudonne and 21-year-old Amhad Campbell were shot and taken to a hospital, where they were pronounced dead.

The school said on its Facebook page that Dieudonne was a sophomore computer science major from Homewood, Illinois. Campbell was a junior agriculture and environmental systems major from Kittrell, North Carolina.

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9:30 a.m.

A university in North Carolina has announced via social media that two of its students are dead after a campus-area shooting.

North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro said on its Facebook page that Greensboro Police Department officers responded to a report of shots fired early Sunday and found two injured students at the scene. Both victims died Sunday morning.

They were identified as Alisia Dieudonne, a sophomore computer science major from Homewood, Illinois; and Ahmad Campbell, a junior agriculture and environmental systems major from Kittrell, North Carolina.

The university said on its Facebook page that its Office of Counseling Services would be open 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday for students seeking counseling services.

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