Divine Eatman, a 21 year-old student, was shot on Saturday night on the campus of North Carolina A&T State University
The shooting prompted a brief campus lockdown at about 10 p.m. amid a weekend of homecoming festivities, police and university authorities said.
The lockdown was lifted because witnesses say they saw the suspect leave campus, reported Jasmine Spencer of Fox.
The shooting was outside, in the area of the circle on Bluford Street, Samantha Hargrover, a university spokeswoman, told the Greensboro News-Record.
Greensboro Police Department said in a statement that “one or more” suspects fired guns near McCain Hall on campus about 10 p.m. Saturday and one of the rounds struck Eatman.
Police said they were seeking four suspects, but a university tweet said no suspects had been identified by late Saturday.
Eatman appeared to have serious, but non-life-threatening wounds and was taken to a hospital, according to the statement released by Police Lieut. J.L. Raines. It said Eatman was “a considerable distance” from the suspects when he was hit. Eatman was taken to Moses Cone Hospital.
Greensboro and campus police responded to the site and a lockdown was ordered. The university’s website announced about an hour later that the lockdown had been lifted, but encouraged students “for increased safety” to stay inside.
“The University Police Department will be visible and on high alert throughout the evening,” it said on Twitter.
Taylor Brunner was quoted by The News-Record newspaper as saying she heard several shots.
“The shooting started. I turned around and a lot of people were running,” said Brunner, described as a university student by the paper.
The university’s website said a week of events for students and alumni led up to a homecoming parade, football game and homecoming concert earlier Saturday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
