Pennsylvania university shooting wounds 2 women

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa. — Two women have been wounded by means of a gunshot all the way through a spring match at a university in southeastern Pennsylvania over the weekend, government stated.

Lincoln University safety officers stated the shooting took place at about 10 p.m. Saturday all the way through “Yardfest,” an annual spring match on the Chester County campus close to Oxford that prosecutors stated used to be attended by means of a number of thousand other people. University officers stated neither sufferer used to be a Lincoln pupil.

County prosecutors stated one girl used to be sitting on a bench seat in a second-floor hallway of a university construction and the the opposite girl used to be status close by within the hallway, which used to be crowded with loads of other people. Both heard a unmarried gunshot and the group started operating.

The sufferer who used to be status recalled feeling ache in her thigh, noticed she were shot and brushed a copper jacket from a bullet off her leg. The seated sufferer had a gunshot wound to her left ankle and docs believed the spherical used to be nonetheless lodged there. Police consider a unmarried spherical handed in the course of the first girl’s thigh and hit the seated sufferer.

The women have been taken to Christiana Hospital. One used to be handled and launched and the opposite used to be anticipated to be launched in a while, prosecutors stated.

Neither sufferer noticed who fired the weapon and the identification of the suspect stays unknown, prosecutors stated. Marc R. Partee, the pinnacle of campus safety, stated previous that “two individuals with white T-shirts” have been being sought.

“Thousands of other people have been terrified all the way through this surprising shooting, and it is vitally lucky that there have been no fatalities,” District Attorney Deb Ryan stated in a observation, asking any individual with information concerning the shooting to name investigators.