Two die in US campus shootout

2008-10-28  |     NEWSPAPER EDITION

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POLICE officers patrolled the University of Central Arkansas campus early yesterday and classes were canceled after a shooting in an alleyway left two students dead and a third person wounded.

Shots were fired in the heart of the campus on Sunday night near a male dormitory and behind the campus police station. One man fell to the sidewalk along a narrow alley between the dormitory and a fine arts center and died.

Police said the two others rushed into the dorm, where paramedics later found them.

University police spokeswoman Lt Rhonda Swindle said police questioned one "person of interest."