{"id":2428137,"date":"2025-04-28T01:31:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T05:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shooting-at-small-north-carolina-college-leaves-one-dead-and-six-wounded-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T01:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T05:32:33","slug":"shooting-at-small-north-carolina-college-leaves-one-dead-and-six-wounded-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shooting-at-small-north-carolina-college-leaves-one-dead-and-six-wounded-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting at small North Carolina college leaves one dead and six wounded &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshooting-at-small-north-carolina-college-leaves-one-dead-and-six-wounded-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2428137&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A tragic shooting occurred early Sunday morning at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina, resulting in one fatality and six injuries during the school&#8217;s annual &#8220;Viking Fest.&#8221; The deceased, a 24-year-old man who was not a student, was killed when gunfire erupted around 12:30 a.m. Among the injured, three were university students, with four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/18-year-old-arrested-in-fatal-shooting-of-philadelphia-police-officer\/\" title=\"18...year...old arrested for killing Philadelphia police officer.\">suffering gunshot wounds<\/a> and others hurt in the chaos that followed. The campus went into lockdown as law enforcement investigated the incident, which reportedly took place after a celebration event. fortunately, none of the injuries are life-threatening. The university expressed condolences and reaffirmed its commitment to the safety of the student community. Students described a sudden transition from festive activities to panic as the shooting unfolded.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Shooting at small North Carolina college leaves one dead and six wounded<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>One man is dead, and six others were wounded after gunfire erupted early Sunday morning on the campus of Elizabeth City State University in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/north-carolina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">North Carolina<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/racially-motivated-jacksonville-shooter-20-was-being-monitored-broadcast-3-manifestos-police\/\" title=\"Police say the 20...year...old Jacksonville shooter, who was racially motivated, was under surveillance and broadcasted three manifestos.\">small historically black university<\/a> was celebrating its annual &ldquo;Viking Fest&rdquo; when the shooting happened, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wavy.com\/news\/local-news\/ecsu-student-recalls-deadly-shooting-that-left-1-dead-and-6-injured\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a>. It was the last day of the weeklong celebration at the school when the shooting occurred around 12:30 a.m. A 24-year-old man was killed and six others were wounded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3393082\/israeli-jets-strike-beirut-southern-suburbs\/\">Israeli jets strike Beirut&#8217;s southern suburbs for the third time since a ceasefire began<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3393062\/trump-reveals-zelensky-asked-more-weapons-vatican-meeting\/\">Trump reveals Zelensky asked for more weapons in Vatican meeting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3393024\/canadian-election-campaigns-somber-note-after-vancouver-massacre\/\">Canadian election campaigns end on somber note after Vancouver massacre<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Three of the wounded were university students, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/04\/27\/us\/ecsu-shooting-nc-elizabeth-city\/index.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a>. The deceased victim was not a student at the university. Law enforcement agencies were investigating the shooting on Sunday, and the school instituted a campus lockdown due to the shooting that lasted most of Sunday before being lifted.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth City State University issued a press <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ecsu.edu\/news\/ecsu-campus-incident-pressrelease.php?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ7deBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFtNU9EV2d3OGJJUkJNMlJ3AR6mwZg5x_CoGne7FO7lGK9440h4NnpRsLfFcCzNSsddtsDfKdEXH9QeYbNuUw_aem_4KA5vyuctjAdu7Fe8Opw0Q\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">release<\/a> on Sunday about the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The incident took place following Yard Fest, part of the Viking Fest events held in the quad area,&rdquo; read the university&rsquo;s release. &ldquo;Six individuals were injured during the incident. Four sustained gunshot wounds, including three ECSU students. Additionally, two other ECSU students were injured during the subsequent commotion. Fortunately, none of the injuries are considered life-threatening, and all the injured were transported to a local hospital for treatment.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A 24-year-old man, who was not an ECSU student, was pronounced deceased,&rdquo; the release noted. &ldquo;His identity is being withheld pending notification of his next of kin.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Several students described what happened as the shooting occurred.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We were just having fun,&rdquo; one student <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wavy.com\/news\/local-news\/ecsu-student-recalls-deadly-shooting-that-left-1-dead-and-6-injured\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/professor-reports-seeing-noose-behind-house-it-was-part-of-a-swing-set\/\" title=\"Professor Reports Seeing \u2018Noose\u2019 Behind House. It Was Part Of A Swing Set.\">local media outlet<\/a>. &ldquo;They were playing music, everybody was dancing. And then a short moment after that, there were pops happening, and everybody started running in the same direction.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I heard the gunshots through my window and through the walls,&rdquo; student Mark Hurlbut <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wwnytv.com\/2025\/04\/28\/i-heard-gunshots-through-my-window-1-dead-5-injured-shooting-north-carolina-college-campus\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> to WITN. &ldquo;Campus honestly didn&rsquo;t send out any alerts of any kind until maybe 20-30 minutes after it happened. I didn&rsquo;t think nothing of it, but then it finally clicked. This happened right outside my door.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth City State University is a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">small college located<\/a> in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, about 50 miles south of Norfolk, Virginia, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/04\/27\/us\/ecsu-shooting-nc-elizabeth-city\/index.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a>. There are approximately 2,500 students enrolled at the college, and it is part of the University of North Carolina system.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;ECSU extends its deepest sympathies to all those affected by this tragic event and remains committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of the Viking community,&rdquo; the university said.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shooting at North Carolina college leaves one dead, six injured<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2677,"featured_media":2428138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Police_Line_Crime_scene_jj3.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4023,4133,32258,4300,3699],"class_list":["post-2428137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-college","tag-news","tag-north-carolina","tag-shooting","tag-violence"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Police_Line_Crime_scene_jj3.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428141,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428137\/revisions\/2428141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2428138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}