Grambling State University Shooting Leaves 2 Dead, Gunman At-Large

GRAMBLING, LA — A Grambling State University student and his friend were shot to death early Wednesday following an altercation that started in a dorm room and ended in a courtyard, authorities said. The gunman remains on the loose.

Detectives and campus police were investigating the shooting after receiving 911 calls around 12:04 a.m., Lincoln Parish Sheriff's spokesman Stephen Williams said.

"It was an altercation that started inside one of the dorm rooms and spilled out into the courtyard," Williams said. "We're interviewing witnesses."

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The historically black university in northern Louisiana has an enrollment of nearly 5,000 students.

Grambling senior Earl Andrews and Monquiarius Caldwell were identified as the victims, university media relations director Will Sutton told news outlets. Both were 23 and from Farmerville, Louisiana.

Andrews' aunt, Mattie Boyette, told KSLA.com that she had no idea why anyone would want to shoot him.

"He was here at Grambling, good student, good kid. He just wanted an education. He just wanted to better himself," Boyette said.

"His momma, his sister and his brother, he was the apple of their eye," she said.

Authorities did not immediately release any information about the suspected shooter.

The deadly shootings happened during the school's homecoming week. KSLA.com reports that Sutton said it was too early to say whether any homecoming events would be affected.

A Grambling State student was wounded last month in a separate shooting on the campus. Sutton told news outlets then that a student let another person into a dorm and there was a fight that ended with a student being shot in the left arm on Sept. 21.

No suspects have been named in any of the shootings.

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