Shooting leaves 1 dead near Texas Southern University

The Texas Southern University in the city of Houston has been on lockdown due to the shooting and all classes were canceled, the school said on Twitter on Friday.

Texas Southern University was on lockdown Friday as police searched for a suspect after two people were shot at a student housing complex, university officials said. On Thursday night around midnight, someone fired a gun into a crowd near the same housing complex where today’s shooting took place. That victim was treated and released.

“Shooting was reported about 11:30am”.

Houston police spokesman Kese Smith said a possible suspect has been detained. “It does not involve an active shooter”.

TSU students are tweeting about the shooting: This is the third shooting on the TSU campus in the past two months, and the second at this apartment complex.

The campus has placed on lockdown until further notice.

The incidents follow a fatal shooting earlier Friday at Northern Arizona University, where an overnight confrontation between students escalated into gunfire that killed one person and wounded three others. On Tuesday, a man was hospitalized in serious but stable condition after being shot in the abdomen on a walkway that leads through campus grounds.

TSU is located in downtown Houston with an enrollment of 9,700, according to its website.

Eight days ago, nine people were killed by a gunman at Umpqua Community College in Oregon.