Students fear for safety following Texas Southern University shooting

HOUSTON (AP) – The latest on a shooting outside a Texas Southern University student housing complex (all times local):

3:15 p.m.

Students at Texas Southern University say they don’t feel safe on campus in the wake of recent shootings, including one that left a student dead and another person wounded.

Nineteen-year-old Brittney Solomon says she had planned to move onto campus, but now she’s reluctant following a shooting late Friday morning at a university-owned student housing complex. Soloman says it’s “really nerve-racking feeling that a person here could have a gun.”

The shooting prompted a campus lockdown and order for students and teachers to remain in their classrooms. At least two other shootings have been reported near or on campus in the last week, prompting officials to increase police presence on campus.

But Daijsa Fowls, also 19, says there’s little enforcement on campus. Fowls says she wouldn’t feel safe bringing her 3-year-old son onto campus.

She says, “A bullet has no name. It could hit anybody.”

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2:25 p.m.

Officials say a student was killed during a shooting outside a Texas Southern University student housing complex, and that two people have been detained for questioning.

University President John Rudley says the student was a freshman at the school. The student’s name, age and gender haven’t been released.

Houston police spokeswoman Jodi Silva says the other person who was shot is hospitalized in stable condition. That person’s name and condition also haven’t been released.

Silva says the shooting happened in a parking lot outside the University Courtyard Apartments, which is on the edge of the school’s Houston campus. She says two people have now been detained, but that a motive remains unclear. She says a third person is being sought for questioning, but that there is no active shooting investigation.

Rudley says the school is no longer on lockdown and classes will resume Monday.

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1:20 p.m.

Houston Police say one person is dead and another wounded after a shooting at a Texas Southern University student housing complex.

University spokesman Kendrick Callis said the shooting was reported around 11:30 a.m. Friday at University Courtyard Apartments on the edge of the Houston campus. Callis said the campus was placed on lockdown and classes were canceled for the rest of the day.

Houston Police tweeted early Friday afternoon that a possible suspect had been detained.

Police and emergency vehicles were at the scene, where there had been another shooting near the same housing complex just hours earlier.

The university has about 9,700 students.

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12:55 p.m.

Officials say Texas Southern University is on lockdown after two people were shot at a student housing complex.

University spokesman Kendrick Callis said the shooting was reported around 11:30 a.m. Friday at University Courtyard Apartments on the edge of the Houston campus.

Callis says the suspected shooter is still on the loose. He says the campus is on lockdown and classes have been cancelled.

Police and emergency vehicles were at the scene. Additional details weren’t immediately available.

The university has about 9,700 students.

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