Police are looking for a fourth suspect in the fatal shooting of two University of Central Arkansas students on Sunday night.
Officials said three suspects had been detained as of Monday. The suspects are not UCA students, according to UCA police Lt. Preston Grumbles.
UCA students Ryan Henderson, 18, and Chavares Block, 19, were killed in the shooting. Henderson died at the scene. Block died at Conway Regional Medical Center.
A third victim, Matrevis Norman, was treated for a gunshot wound to the leg and released from the hospital. He is not a student at UCA.
“This is something you pray never happens,” interim university president Tom Courtway said. “But it happened.”
Classes were cancelled on Monday after police responded to a 911 call at 9:22 p.m. near the Arkansas residence hall. A campus lockdown was issued, but has since been lifted.
Police have not given a reason for the shooting, but say there is no indication it was gang-related.
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Emergency procedures are available online and are posted around campus. Information for this story was gathered from CNN and The Echo, UCA’s student newspaper.
