Monday, October 27, 2008

Two suspects held, two sought in Arkansas campus shooting

Police are searching for two suspects in the fatal shooting of two University of Central Arkansas students Sunday night, while two other suspects are in custody, authorities said Monday.
The first suspect was apprehended in his car shortly after the shooting, and a second turned himself in, said University of Central Arkansas police Lt. Preston Grumbles.
The four suspects are not university students, he said.
The shooting, which happened outside a dorm, prompted a campus lockdown and the cancellation of Monday classes at the university, which serves about 12,500 full-time students in Conway, Arkansas.
"This is something you pray never happens," a visibly upset Tom Courtway, interim university president, said Monday. "Our campus is safe."
Police said students Ryan Henderson, 18, of Little Rock, Arkansas, and Charvareas Block, 19, of Dermott, Arkansas, were killed. Henderson died at the scene, and Block died at Conway Regional Medical Center.
Martrevis Norman, 19, who is not a student, was treated at a hospital and released, according to Lt. Rhonda Swindle. Norman is from Blytheville, Arkansas, she said. A hospital representative earlier told CNN that the survivor was shot in the leg.

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