1 shot dead, 3 injured in confrontation between students
According to the campus police, several students in two separate student groups, including Jones, got into the confrontation.
But the father of one girl who was shot in the back and survived by playing dead accused Obama of politicizing the tragedy and said earlier this week that he had declined an invitation to meet the president.
It was not immediately clear what the confrontation was about, but Jones was cooperating with police, Fowler said.
Vice then turned to Shooting Tracker-the website which counts any shooting where four people are wounded as a mass shooting-and suggested the shooting at NAU makes “the 299th” mass shooting of 2015.
“How am I supposed to feel safe where I’m learning”, Gonzalez said.
Dispatchers instructed a few callers to stay inside, lock their doors and turn off the lights while advising help was on the way.
Iowa City, Iowa-based Delta Chi Fraternity said Delta Chi members were involved, but Executive Director Justin Sherman said in the statement that the organization doesn’t have detailed information about the identity of the victims.
Students Nicholas Prato, Kyle Zientek and Nicholas Piring were wounded. This is not a case of self-defense, the prosecution said. The three who were wounded were taken to Flagstaff Medical Center.
“We have assured the NAU community that the campus is secure and classes will go on as scheduled”, Cheng said.
Following a personal meeting with families, Mr Obama said he’d “strong feelings” about gun control, including: “We will need to come together as a nation to find out how we are able to prevent these problems from occurring”.
Brough loved playing lacrosse and basketball in addition to skateboarding and snowboarding, said one of his friends from Annapolis, Jason Egelanian, 20.
The demonstrators blamed the massacre here last week on two things: a failure to treat mental health problems and the designation of Umpqua Community College as a gun-free zone.
A university student initially mistook the shots for fireworks.
The gunman, Jones, has posted pictures of himself with firearms on his Instagram page.
Defense attorney Burges McCowan asked Flagstaff Justice Court Judge Paul Christian to allow Jones to be released to his parents in Glendale, Arizona, saying he has no prior criminal history and is a lifelong resident of Arizona. He is being held on a $2 million bond.
Kirwin and another friend dropped off flowers and cards outside the Brough family home in Castle Rock on Friday. A Family Assistance Center has been set up in the ballroom of 1899 Bar & Grill, 307 W. Dupont Ave., in Flagstaff. “You can not carry it around on campus”, Fowler said.