Domino Harvey
A former student shot the night manager and another man inside a Hampton University dorm before turning the gun on himself, police and school officials said Sunday. All three were hospitalized.
No students were injured in the shooting reported around 1 a.m., Hampton police said.
The suspect, who is from Richmond, shot two Hampton men, ages 62 and 43, before shooting himself, police said in a statement.
The 18-year-old shooter is a former student and the older victim is the night manager of the dormitory, Harkness Hall, school spokeswoman Yuri Rodgers Milligan said.
Names of those involved were not immediately released.
Students who were in the all-male freshman dormitory said the other victim was a Domino's Pizza delivery man.
Jelani Holland, 18, a freshman from Los Angeles, said he and other students were playing music and video games in the dorm when they heard a fire alarm about 12:30 a.m. As they left their rooms, they saw the delivery man shot in the neck and stomach outside the night manager's office. Police were applying pressure to his wounds, he said.
"He was shaking a lot and talking with police," Holland said.
Officials did not have the motive for the shooting, which prompted a campus lockdown that continued Sunday morning while police investigated.
Per university policy, all students, faculty and staff were notified about the situation via text message and e-mail.
Hampton University is a private school in southeastern university with about 5,700 students. It was founded in 1868 during Reconstruction to educate black leaders for the newly freed slaves.
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