1 dead, 6 injured after shooting during homecoming celebration at Lincoln University

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The man killed in a mass shooting on the campus of Lincoln University in Lower Oxford Township, Pennsylvania, has been identified.

Jujuan Jeffers, 20, of Wilmington, Delaware, died shortly after midnight after being shot in the head during the gunfire Saturday night, which broke out during homecoming celebrations at the school.

Six people were wounded in the shooting, all between the ages of 20 and 25. They are all expected to survive, Chester County District Attorney Chris de Barrena-Sarobe said in a news conference on Sunday evening.

One of the victims is a current student, another is an alum, while the rest have no connection to the university.

One person has been arrested in connection with this shooting so far.

Zecqueous Morgan-Thompson, also a resident of Wilmington, has been charged with carrying a concealed firearm without a license and is being held on $25,000 cash bail.

Investigators are not yet able to say if the gun found on Morgan-Thompson was used in the shooting.

An investigation into the circumstances of the shooting continues, and authorities have a “strong belief” that there was more than one shooter, de Barrena-Sarobe said.

However, authorities don’t think this was a planned shooting, but rather that the violence erupted spontaneously.

“We are operating under the belief that the shooter or shooters in this case did not come here with the specific design to cause a mass casualty event. We believe they would have operated differently. So we’re treating this as a shooting that broke out in the middle of homecoming weekend,” de Barrena-Sarobe said.

The shooting happened outside the International Cultural Center during homecoming celebrations following the school’s football game.

De Barrena-Sarobe said in an earlier news conference that “it was a chaotic scene and people fled in every direction.”

“We are investigating with the full power of federal, state and local law enforcement,” de Barrena-Sarobe said.

Authorities are asking anyone with information to contact 1-800-CALLFBI.

“This is particularly important because in this age of cell phones, people have videos. Digital evidence is key for us to putting this together and to be able to go back and hold the shooters accountable for what happened,” de Barrena-Sarobe said.

Lincoln University has suspended classes for Monday. Counseling services will be available throughout the week.

The university will also hold a healing and reflection event at noon on Monday.

‘I thought it was fireworks’

This mass shooting has shaken the community at Lincoln University, one of the nation’s oldest historically Black universities.

Homecoming is supposed to be a time to reunite and rejoice. But instead, people were left running for their lives.

“I just remember hearing noises at first. I thought it was fireworks,” said Asya Price, a student visiting from Widener University.

Price and her friend, Zakiyyah Bilao, found themselves in the middle of the chaos.

“We just came to have a good time, and people that don’t even attend the school ruined it,” Bilao said.

Terina Clarke was among the alumni who were back on campus Saturday night.

“It was too many people here with a lack of supervision,” she said.

Clarke says she left just moments before shots rang out.

“I know I could have been caught up because I’m disabled. They could have trampled over me,” she said.

Marc Lanyon graduated with his Master’s Degree from the university in 1998. He too attended the celebration on Saturday.

“A friend of mine texted me at 9 o’ clock, ‘Are you okay?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, I’m okay. What do you mean?’ There was a mass shooting. ‘Are you kidding me? When we left, everything was going great,'” Lanyon said.

He is concerned that violent incidents such as this put HBCUs in a negative light.

“Lincoln is a safe school. It’s just that, unfortunately, you have some bad apples that show up and do stupid things,” he said.

People stopped by to place flowers on the campus steps on Sunday. Meanwhile, alumni are leaning on each other, hoping this tragedy strengthens Lincoln University for the better.

“I’m just praying for those folks’ families that came out to have a good time. It’s just a sad situation,” Clarke said. “I’m going to be a Lincoln alumnus for life, through the good and the bad.”

The FBI is asking for tips or cell phone video in relation to the shooting. You can submit your tips or videos at the FBI website.