A student was injured Wednesday in a shooting on a campus parking lot at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Two suspects were at large but the school did not believe others on campus were at risk.
Shots were fired at 2:10 p.m. in a parking lot near University Theatre and Stabler Hall. The victim staggered to a parking lot near the theatre, where ambulance attendants reached him and administered emergency care before taking him to a hospital.
UALR Police Chief Brad King says officers believe the incident was an isolated one.
King says the student was shot as he walked on a sidewalk about 70 yards from the University Theatre. The injured student made it across a small lawn into a parking lot where his black 1990s Honda Prelude was parked.
King says the two men who accosted him immediately left campus after the shooting in a gold colored car. Twenty minutes after the shooting, the university sent an alert by telephone and e-mail to students and campus employees. It wasn't immediately known whether they were told to take cover. King says the alert system worked.
Jon Atwood, a 26-year-old senior mass communications major from Little Rock, says he saw the shooting victim lying on the ground. Atwood says he hadn't heard any gunshots, but the man was moaning.
The victim was taken to a hospital.
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Lets also remember the other schools that has had it way worse than us!!
5 comments:
Thank god that it was an isolated thing. I have a cousin who goes to ULAR, scary!!
i know in that neighbor hood it was probably a drive by
wow that is wild! glad most are ok and love your post about d mac!!
ok.. i have gotten more info on the shooting.. the guy was actually friends w/ on of my friends that i work with.. the two guys knew him and were out to kill him we heard.. They induced him in a coma for two days but said he should be ok.. He was shot at point blank range in the stomach and in the back.. I heard drugs may have been involved but my friend said he did not do drugs!!!
It is so scary... I am glad I wasn't at school either. Makes your realize that it can happen anywhere. By the way, you've been tagged!!!
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