Suspect identified in fatal shooting at Northern Arizona University

Suspect identified in fatal shooting at Northern Arizona University,An brief battle amid two groups of acceptance escalated into battery Friday if a apprentice at Northern Arizona University dead one getting and blood-soaked three others, authorities said.

University badge arch Gregory T. Fowler articular the ballista as 18-year-old Steven Jones and said he acclimated a blaster in the shootings at about 1:20 a.m. Friday. Badge were still interviewing Jones and he had not been appointed into bastille Friday morning.

The university in a account articular the apprentice who died as Colin Brough. The victims getting advised at Flagstaff Medical Center are Nicholas Prato, Kyle Zientek and Nicholas Piring. The hospital said it couldn't absolution any advice on conditions.

"This is not traveling to be a accustomed day at NAU," said academy President Rita Cheng. "Our hearts are heavy."

She alleged it an abandoned and aberrant adventure and said classes would go on as appointed Friday.The parking lot breadth the cutting happened is just alfresco Mountain View Hall billet on the Flagstaff campus, which provides apartment for abounding of the campus' sororities and fraternities.

Iowa City, Iowa-based Delta Chi Fraternity said Delta Chi associates were involved, but Executive Director Justin Sherman said in the account that the alignment doesn't accept abundant advice about the character of the victims.

Alex McIntosh, a acquaintance of Zientek, said he formed allotment time at the High Country Conference Center while accessory the academy abounding time.

"He's actual calm, actual respectful, has a abundant manner, calm address and you'd never apprehend him to be bent up in something like this," McIntosh said.

Freshman Cameron Sands, 18, said he had apprenticed at a fraternity and was declared to move into Mountain View Hall on Friday.

"It's crazy. You don't anticipate this being happens. If I anticipate of Flagstaff, I anticipate safety," he said.

Student Maria Gonzalez told The Associated Press that she at aboriginal doubtable firecrackers if the cutting happened.

"I was belief for an assay so I looked out the window and see two humans running, and that's if I accomplished they weren't fireworks they were in fact gunshots," she said.

The aboideau to the dorm's capital access was bankrupt Friday, and badge had the surrounding breadth taped off.
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