Youngstown police, along with Youngstown State University officers, are investigating an off-campus shooting where 12 people were hit by gunfire, one person is dead. Read more after the jump!!
(WKBN)–The shooting happened around 3:00 a.m. Sunday at 55 Indiana Ave. on the city’s north side. A 25 year-old male YSU student was killed. Eleven others, including six YSU students, were wounded and treated at St. Elizabeth Medical Center.
Police are looking for suspects, but YSU Police Chief John Gocala says there is not a threat to the campus. As a precaution, police presence on campus has been increased.
YSU President Cynthia Anderson was at the hospital Sunday morning with students and their families. Arrangements have been made to make counselors and clergy available.
“I want to express my deepest sympathies to the family of the student who died in this tragic act of violence, and to ask everyone to keep him and the other students in their thoughts and prayers,” said Anderson. “It is a sad day for the YSU family.”
At this time we do not know the conditions of the victims, or what motivated the shootings.
