6 NC Central students now charged in campus dorm shooting, including the one who got shot
Three more students were arrested Monday in an April 2 shooting in an N.C. Central University dormitory that sent one student to the hospital.
For the first time, NCCU officials also said Tuesday that one of the now six students arrested and charged is also the one who got shot.
No one has been charged with the actual shooting, however, and police said in Tuesday’s update that they anticipate making “further arrests.”
Here are the students facing charges:
▪ Keyatta Carmichael E’Rico Hill and Jayiana Mitchell voluntarily surrendered to campus police and were charged with conspiring to commit armed robbery.
▪ That’s the same charge facing Paris Amos, Shazyah Bell, and Eric Randall, who were previously arrested. Randall was also charged with conspiracy to commit assault with a deadly weapon
Hill, the student shot during the April 2 incident at Lawson Street Residence Hall, has since been released from the hospital, NCCU said Tuesday.
The university has not said what happened that night.
The shooting prompted an NCCU Eagle Alert, which said there was an “armed and dangerous person” on Lawson Street.
The campus was on lockdown for almost three hours, until about 12:50 a.m. on April 3, when campus police Chief Damon Williams said there no longer was any threat to the community.
The night of the shooting
On the night of the shooting, police responded to a call about 10:15 p.m. about possible gunshots at the dorm near Fayetteville Street, The News & Observer previously reported.
Emergency Medical Services workers on campus for an unrelated medical call “rendered aid to one person who sustained one or more gunshot wounds,” the university said.
The following day, the university said it had learned “physical identities of the suspects..”
Residence halls on campus require card-key entry at all hours, said Stephen W. Fusi, chief brand officer for the university, in an email.
