{"id":2646915,"date":"2026-08-19T11:13:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vsu-student-charged-after-alleged-shooter-hid-in-her-dorm-closet\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:15:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:15:03","slug":"vsu-student-charged-after-alleged-shooter-hid-in-her-dorm-closet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vsu-student-charged-after-alleged-shooter-hid-in-her-dorm-closet\/","title":{"rendered":"VSU student charged after alleged shooter hid in her dorm closet"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fvsu-student-charged-after-alleged-shooter-hid-in-her-dorm-closet%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=2646915&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>Police arrested and charged a Virginia State University student, Ja\u2019niah johnson, after she turned herself in for her alleged involvement in a Saturday shooting on campus. The incident injured five peopel, with victims ranging from 17 to 23 years old.Johnson, a 19-year-old from Maryland, was charged with obstruction and accessory to the suspected shooter, Camron Harris. Harris, also 19, from Virginia, was arrested shortly after the shooting and faces multiple charges, including malicious wounding and use of a firearm during a felony. Harris was held without bond.The exact relationship between Johnson and Harris remains unclear, and Harris&#8217;s motives are unknown. Johnson appeared in court, was released on her own recognizance, and police continue investigations. The campus lockdown was lifted after authorities confirmed there was no ongoing threat.The victims&#8217; identities have not been disclosed. The shooting occurred early Saturday morning,just before the fall semester&#8217;s start,at Virginia State University,a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-joe-biden-suggests-to-black-students-he-was-arrested-during-civil-rights-struggle\/\" title=\"WATCH: Joe Biden Suggests to Black ...s He Was ...ed During Civil Rights Struggle\">historically black institution<\/a> in Petersburg,Virginia.  <\/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<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/police\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"211\">Police<\/a> arrested and charged a Virginia State University student who turned herself in after an alleged suspect in Saturday\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/shootings\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1988\">shooting<\/a> hid in her dormitory closet on campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ja\u2019niah Johnson, 19, of Glen Burnie, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/maryland\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"49\">Maryland<\/a>, was charged with obstruction and being an accessory to the suspected shooter. Camron Harris, 19, of Henrico, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/virginia\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"96\">Virginia<\/a>, was arrested hours after he committed the university shooting, which left five people injured.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4692637\/virginia-state-university-shooter-hid-dorm-closet-student-turned-herself-in\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Virginia State University student charged after alleged shooter hid in her dorm closet<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4692557\/police-arrest-deadly-great-falls-stabbing\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Police arrest 19-year-old for deadly Great Falls stabbing of woman<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4691311\/dsa-dc-chapter-riots-and-uprisings-reading-club\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>DSA chapter plans \u2018Riots and Uprisings\u2019 reading club to study \u2018how people struggled\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Johnson surrendered herself to authorities after Chesterfield County police contacted her this week. She appeared in court and was released on her own recognizance, meaning she left jail without paying bail in exchange for promising to return to court for all future hearings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harris was not a student or one of the injured people, according to police. It remains unclear how Johnson, who was a student, was connected to Harris. His motive for the shooting is also unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After his arrest, Harris was charged with four counts of malicious wounding and four counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Additional charges may be filed, police said. He is being held without bond at the Chesterfield County Jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the five wounded victims, who ranged in age between 17 and 23, were four nonstudents and one student. A 21-year-old man, one of the nonstudents, remains in critical condition. Meanwhile, the 20-year-old student was released from the hospital.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The names of the victims have not been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The university previously said there were multiple shooters involved in the incident, but officials have not provided any information about additional armed suspects since then. The campus lockdown was subsequently lifted once police determined there was no immediate threat to the campus community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4688938\/suspect-arrested-virginia-state-university-shooting\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4688938\/suspect-arrested-virginia-state-university-shooting\/\">SUSPECT ARRESTED IN VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY SHOOTING THAT LEFT FIVE INJURED, ONE CRITICALLY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shooting occurred around 1:30 a.m. Saturday, two days before the fall semester was scheduled to start. Residence halls were open for a week before the shooting for freshman orientation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Virginia State University, a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >historically black land-grant university founded<\/a> in 1882, is located in Petersburg, Virginia, about 24 miles south of Richmond. The university has roughly 5,700 total students, most of whom are undergraduates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia State student surrenders after campus shooting suspect hid in her closet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2159,"featured_media":2646916,"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\/2026\/08\/AP26227539577003.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[37886,84378,84377],"class_list":["post-2646915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-campus-safety","tag-student-crime","tag-vsu"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP26227539577003.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646915","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\/2159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2646915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2646919,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646915\/revisions\/2646919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2646916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2646915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2646915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}