[Updated (10/9/15, 6:54 p.m.) with more details.]
One person was killed and three were wounded after a shooting early Friday morning at Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff, according to a series of updates from the university. The Associated Press reported that the police said the shooting had begun as a fight between two groups of students.
The New York Times reported that the victims were all members of a campus fraternity, Delta Chi. The fraternity’s executive director, Justin P. Sherman, said in a statement that the incident “had no ties to the chapter.”
The Associated Press reported that the alleged gunman, 18-year-old Steven Jones, had been arrested and was being held on a $2-million cash-only bond. Mr. Jones, who was pledging the university’s Sigma Chi fraternity chapter, faces one count of first-degree homicide and three counts of aggravated assault. A prosecutor was quoted by the AP as saying that Mr. Jones could have walked away from the fight but instead collected a handgun from his car and “went back into the fray.”
A Sigma Chi official told the AP that Mr. Jones had been removed from the pledge program and the chapter had been suspended pending an investigation by the fraternity’s national organization.
The shooting occurred sometime around 1:20 a.m. local time in a parking lot outside Mountain View Hall, a dormitory.
The incident follows two high-profile campus shootings in just the past month. In September a professor was shot to death in his office by a colleague at Delta State University, in Mississippi. And last week a gunman killed nine people and himself at Umpqua Community College, in Oregon.
