Northern Arizona University deadly shooting followed fight, police say, A apprentice accused of cutting four adolescent acceptance at Northern Arizona University has been answerable with one calculation of first-degree annihilation and three counts of abomination aggravated assault.
Steven Jones, 18, said "Yes" if a Coconino County adjudicator asked him over a video augment Friday afternoon if he accepted the charges. Bail was set at $2 million.
Prosecutors said Jones was complex in a action with added acceptance about 1:20 a.m. Friday and ran to his car area he best up a handgun. This is not a case of self-defense, the case said.
Colin Brough was dead and Nicholas Piring, Nicholas Prato and Kyle Zientek were wounded, the university said.
University Badge Chief Gregory T. Fowler said at a morning account appointment that Jones was allied with investigators.
Fowler said it appeared the victims had been attempt assorted times.
The victims were all associates of the Delta Chi fraternity, the alignment said Friday. The doubtable apache was a agreement in addition fraternity -- Sigma Chi, according to that organization's civic office.
"We are acutely afflicted by this tragedy and our thoughts and prayers are with the accompany and ancestors of the victims, as able-bodied as the absolute association in Flagstaff," Delta Chi said in a statement. The alignment said it was gluttonous the university's advice in accouterment counseling to its members.
Sigma Chi Executive Director Michael Church beatific his condolences to the victims.
"Our hearts and prayers are with the ancestors and accompany of the alone dead and those who were injured," he said. Church added that the adventure was "in no way associated with any affiliate event," but the affiliate has been abeyant and Jones removed from the agreement program.
University President Rita Cheng said the academy had accomplished "a abhorrent tragedy."
"This is not traveling to be a accustomed day at NAU," she told reporters. "Our hearts are heavy."Students annoyed up
Students, actualization weary and shocked, abounding a morning account appointment on the shooting. Some questioned why it took added than an hour afterwards the cutting for argument notifications admonishing of crisis to go out to the university community.
Junior Megan Aardahl told CNN she awoke to argument letters from the academy and her ancestors blockage to see if she was OK. She said the adventure ashamed her and added students.
"There's a huge faculty of association here, so everyone's just aggravating to like ability out and accomplish abiding everyone's OK, but it's a little afraid not alive who's involved," she said.
Fowler said he couldn't anon explain the messaging delays but said admiral beatific antecedent alerts out of an affluence of attention even admitting the bearings was beneath ascendancy and there was no crisis to students.
Gov. Doug Ducey apprenticed accompaniment abutment to advice badge investigate the cutting and to advice those afflicted recover.
"This affecting adventure will appulse abounding of our adolescent citizens, and I ask all Arizonans to accumulate them and the ancestors of the alone absent in their thoughts and prayers as they cope with this tragedy," he said.
Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, aswell issued a statement.
"My thoughts and prayers are with families of the being who was dead and the three others who were blood-soaked in the alarming cutting on the campus of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff aboriginal this morning," he said. "I acknowledge the efforts of all accompaniment and bounded law administration officials, first-responders and academy administrators, and abide to adjure for the accretion of the injured, as able-bodied as all those in the NAU association who accept been impacted by this abhorrent tragedy."
The cutting comes the aforementioned day President Barack Obama visited Roseburg, Oregon, and the families of those collapsed in the October 1 annihilation at Umpqua Association College.
The apache in that case, Chris Harper-Mercer, 26, dead nine humans afore killing himself, according to police.
Steven Jones, 18, said "Yes" if a Coconino County adjudicator asked him over a video augment Friday afternoon if he accepted the charges. Bail was set at $2 million.
Prosecutors said Jones was complex in a action with added acceptance about 1:20 a.m. Friday and ran to his car area he best up a handgun. This is not a case of self-defense, the case said.
Colin Brough was dead and Nicholas Piring, Nicholas Prato and Kyle Zientek were wounded, the university said.
University Badge Chief Gregory T. Fowler said at a morning account appointment that Jones was allied with investigators.
Fowler said it appeared the victims had been attempt assorted times.
The victims were all associates of the Delta Chi fraternity, the alignment said Friday. The doubtable apache was a agreement in addition fraternity -- Sigma Chi, according to that organization's civic office.
"We are acutely afflicted by this tragedy and our thoughts and prayers are with the accompany and ancestors of the victims, as able-bodied as the absolute association in Flagstaff," Delta Chi said in a statement. The alignment said it was gluttonous the university's advice in accouterment counseling to its members.
Sigma Chi Executive Director Michael Church beatific his condolences to the victims.
"Our hearts and prayers are with the ancestors and accompany of the alone dead and those who were injured," he said. Church added that the adventure was "in no way associated with any affiliate event," but the affiliate has been abeyant and Jones removed from the agreement program.
University President Rita Cheng said the academy had accomplished "a abhorrent tragedy."
"This is not traveling to be a accustomed day at NAU," she told reporters. "Our hearts are heavy."Students annoyed up
Students, actualization weary and shocked, abounding a morning account appointment on the shooting. Some questioned why it took added than an hour afterwards the cutting for argument notifications admonishing of crisis to go out to the university community.
Junior Megan Aardahl told CNN she awoke to argument letters from the academy and her ancestors blockage to see if she was OK. She said the adventure ashamed her and added students.
"There's a huge faculty of association here, so everyone's just aggravating to like ability out and accomplish abiding everyone's OK, but it's a little afraid not alive who's involved," she said.
Fowler said he couldn't anon explain the messaging delays but said admiral beatific antecedent alerts out of an affluence of attention even admitting the bearings was beneath ascendancy and there was no crisis to students.
Gov. Doug Ducey apprenticed accompaniment abutment to advice badge investigate the cutting and to advice those afflicted recover.
"This affecting adventure will appulse abounding of our adolescent citizens, and I ask all Arizonans to accumulate them and the ancestors of the alone absent in their thoughts and prayers as they cope with this tragedy," he said.
Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, aswell issued a statement.
"My thoughts and prayers are with families of the being who was dead and the three others who were blood-soaked in the alarming cutting on the campus of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff aboriginal this morning," he said. "I acknowledge the efforts of all accompaniment and bounded law administration officials, first-responders and academy administrators, and abide to adjure for the accretion of the injured, as able-bodied as all those in the NAU association who accept been impacted by this abhorrent tragedy."
The cutting comes the aforementioned day President Barack Obama visited Roseburg, Oregon, and the families of those collapsed in the October 1 annihilation at Umpqua Association College.
The apache in that case, Chris Harper-Mercer, 26, dead nine humans afore killing himself, according to police.
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