Fla. university locked down after gun fired at campus party
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Authorities lifted a lockdown at Florida Atlantic University on Wednesday after apprehending a suspect in an overnight campus shooting, officials said.
Two shots were fired shortly after 1 a.m. at a party in the student apartments on the Boca Raton campus, campus Police Chief Charles Lowe said.
One person who is not a student was slightly injured, but it was not clear if that person was hit by a bullet, officials said.
Exams were canceled and the school used a newly installed alert system to tell students to stay in their dormitories while authorities searched the campus Wednesday morning. Classes were to resume Thursday, officials said.
Hours after the shooting, Omar Everton Graham Jr. was taken into custody in North Miami on the campus of Johnson & Wales University, said FAU Deputy Chief Keith Totten.
Totten told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that Graham, 23, of Royal Palm Beach, was charged with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon on campus in connection with the shooting.
Johnson & Wales, a private career school, issued a statement saying Graham was a student there.
No one answered a call to a phone listed under the name Omar E. Graham.
Soon after the early morning shooting, students were notified of an emergency by sirens, mass e-mails and announcements over the school’s public address system and they were warned to remain indoors.
The alert system was installed just 60 days ago and had not been fully tested.
“It seemed to work,” said FAU President Frank Brogan.
Brogan said fewer people were on campus than usual because it is FAU’s finals week.
Guns are not permitted at FAU.
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I wonder how many of these school shooters were taking SSRIs before they flipped out. The latest guy had just stopped taking them. Makes you wonder if some of this is related to SSRI withdrawals.
Those people (TSA) are a useless fraud.
Not only that, but requiring a pilot to arm and disarm several times during the flight is absolutely stupid. Every time you handle the gun you’re increasing your risk of an accidental discharge. This could have been avoided if the pilot was never required to disarm in the first place or if the TSA required logical holsters.