One person was killed and five others were injured in a homecoming weekend shooting Saturday night at Albany State University in Georgia, school officials said.
In Mississippi, at least two people opened fire on a group of several hundred people on an outdoor promenade celebrating a high school football team’s homecoming game victory early Saturday morning near Lexington, Mississippi, killing three and killing eight people. authorities said he was injured. .
Albany State University interim president Lawrence M. Drake II said the shooting occurred on the school’s east campus, according to Georgia television news station WAGA. He said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) is in charge of the case.
“As always, the safety and security of ASU students, faculty and staff is this university’s top priority,” Drake said in a statement Sunday.
Dougherty County Coroner Michael Fowler told Georgia news station WALB that the 19-year-old man from Atlanta died at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany. WALB identified the murdered victim as Demorion Tayshaun Daniels.
Albany State University enrolls approximately 6,000 students.
As of Sunday morning, there had been more than 420 mass shootings across the United States this year.
The bipartisan archive defines a mass shooting as “a mass shooting in which four or more victims are injured or killed.”
The high rate of mass shootings in the United States each year has led to calls in some parts of the country for stricter federal gun laws, but Congress has been largely unable or unwilling to implement such measures. They are reluctant to do so.
