Morgan State Shuts Down All Homecoming Events After Campus Shooting That Injured Five

Morgan State University has canceled classes for the week and all remaining homecoming events including Saturday’s football game after a shooting on campus that left five people hurt.

Baltimore Police released a surveillance video late Wednesday that shows several people walking in a grassy area. They are seeking the identities of the “persons of interest” in connection with the shooting.

Police Commissioner Richard Worley said at least two people opened fire Tuesday evening during a dispute between two groups at the university's homecoming events, but the victims were likely not the shooters’ intended targets.

“Today, we unfortunately find ourselves navigating this tragic event during a time at which we should be celebrating,” University President David Wilson said in a message to the university community.

Wilson said the football game and the annual homecoming gala would be rescheduled until “the perpetrator(s) of this atrocity have been found and brought to justice.

The shooting happened just after a popular homecoming event where Mister & Miss Morgan State were crowned at the Murphy Fine Arts Center on the historically Black college's campus.

Police went room to room in a dormitory looking for suspects after the shooting and the campus was locked down for about four hours.

The lockdown was lifted shortly after midnight even though the suspects remained on the loose.

Videos posted on social media showed SWAT teams with guns drawn going into dorm rooms in Thurgood Marshall Hall, and ordering students to stand up and turn around.

Konnor Crowder, a sophomore from Baltimore, said he and his friends had been waiting for the coronation ball to start when they saw people running.

“First I was wondering what they were running for, then I was wondering where we should go,” he said.

Worley said Wednesday that the five victims, four men and one woman, are between the ages of 18 and 22. Their injuries were not life-threatening.