Kentucky State University shooting victim identified
by UPI Staff · UPIDec. 10 (UPI) -- Officials in Kentucky have identified the 19-year-old victim killed in Tuesday's shooting at Kentucky State University.
The Franklin County Coroner's Office identified the victim as De'Jon Darrell Fox Jr., according to multiple news reports. He was a student at the school in Frankfort and was the only victim in the incident.
He was from Indianapolis, news reports said.
Soon after the shooting on Tuesday, a suspect was arrested and the campus secured in an event that also left another person hospitalized.
The Frankfort Police Department said they responded to an emergency call reporting an active aggressor on the campus at 3:35 p.m. local time. When officers arrived on scene, they found two people shot near the residential Witney M. Young Jr. Hall.
Frankfort Police Department officials said the incident was because of a personal dispute.
Frankfort is located 40 miles northwest of Lexington, and KSU has more than 2,200 enrolled students and 450 faculty and staff.
The university is a historically black university that was founded in 1886.
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