Morgan State has canceled its homecoming football game in opposition to Stony Brook following a Tuesday on-campus shooting that left five other folks wounded, college president David Wilson announced Wednesday evening in a video.
“We arrived at this decision after very, very careful and yes, at times, emotional deliberations with key stakeholders within our university community, including, once again, members of the Morgan State University board of regents, my administration, students throughout the campus, student leaders from our SGA and our university council,” Wilson mentioned.
Students had been leaving a coronation rite Tuesday night time when gunfire erupted. Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley mentioned Wednesday morning that the five injured other folks had been “unintended targets” in a dispute between two smaller teams. Worley additionally indicated that Baltimore police are nonetheless in search of a couple of suspects.
According to Worley, the injured — 4 males and one girls, ages 18-22 — had been all bystanders. One has since been launched from the medical institution, and the others are nonetheless receiving remedy for accidents which might be regarded as non-life threatening.
An official announcement didn’t point out if Saturday’s Week 6 game can be made up at a later date. The matchup would had been the Bears’ ultimate nonconference game of the season. The pause marks the primary time in Morgan State’s historical past that every one actions round homecoming had been both canceled or postponed. Morgan State’s subsequent game is on Oct. 19 in opposition to North Carolina Central. Morgan State is 1-4 via its first five video games of the season.