Kentucky State University shooting leaves 1 dead, 1 critical

(CNN) — One student is dead and another remains in critical condition after a shooting at Kentucky State University upended students’ final exams of the semester before they go on winter break, police said.

The suspect, who is not a student, is in custody, police and university officials said. The student in critical condition remains stable, university spokesperson Michael DeCourcy told CNN. DeCourcy said it was not a targeted attack and that campus police officers responded to the shooting immediately and arrested the suspect moments after the first shot.

The university said the shooting unfolded around 3:35 p.m. outside Whitney M. Young Jr. residence hall, a dorm on campus.

Law enforcement agencies have secured the scene but the school remains on lockdown as police investigate what the governor has called an isolated attack.

DeCourcy said none of the campus police officers fired their weapons “to our knowledge.”

Kentucky State University, a historically Black university that was chartered in 1886, has more than 2,200 students and 450 faculty and staff members, according its website. Now, it has now become the site of the 73rd shooting on school grounds this year, most of which...