by Sharelle Burt
April 28, 2025
Ideas of assist poured in on social media highlighting that tragedy correlating to gun violence continues to overshadow the problem of gun management in America.
A celebration at HBCU Elizabeth Metropolis State College (ECSU) led to tragedy after a capturing left one lifeless and 6 injured, NBC Information experiences.
The capturing passed off throughout early hours on April 27, following Yard Fest, the final occasion of the North Carolina-based HBCUs’ weeklong Viking Fest celebration. The campus was locked down as 4 individuals sustained gunshot wounds, together with three college students, and two different college students had been injured on account of the commotion. An unidentified 24-year-old man, who was not a pupil, was pronounced lifeless shortly after.
In a press release, ECSU officers known as the act of violence “mindless” and supplied ideas and prayers. “The college is deeply saddened by this mindless act,” the assertion learn. “Our ideas and prayers are with the victims, their households, and all members of the Viking group affected by this tragedy.”
The lockdown was lifted afterward the identical day, as a spokesman for Sentara Well being reported that 4 individuals had been handled at Sentara Albemarle Medical Middle, with three already discharged, based on WWLTV.
The tragic occasion is an addition to a number of acts of violence which have taken place on faculty grounds. In mid-April, Florida State College (FSU) in Tallahassee suffered the same loss after a pupil and son of a neighborhood sheriff’s deputy allegedly opened hearth on campus, leaving two lifeless and 6 others injured.
Ideas of assist poured in on social media, highlighting that tragedy correlating to gun violence continues to overshadow the problem of gun management in America. “ANOTHER SCHOOL SHOOTING! This isn’t an ECSU, Elizabeth Metropolis State College, downside. It’s a gun downside on this nation. FSU simply had the identical difficulty with harmless individuals dying,” @road_trippin wrote on X.
“They’re placing restrictions on every little thing BUT GUNS!! Make it make sense.”
https://twitter.com/Road_trippn/standing/1916865729942475135
Whereas President Donald Trump hasn’t issued statements on the ECSU capturing, he did converse out concerning the violence at FSU, calling it “horrible” however defending the 2nd Modification proper. “These items are horrible. However the gun doesn’t do the capturing, the individuals do,” the indicted President mentioned.
To adjust to a few of his government orders, the Division of Well being and Human Companies (HHS) eliminated a former surgeon normal’s warning declaring gun violence a public well being disaster.
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