FILE – Asian Doll arrives on the MTV Video Music Awards at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor, Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, in New York. Two individuals had been shot and others had been injured as they fled gunfire that broke out at a North Carolina faculty homecoming live performance that includes rapper Asian Doll, late Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022, officers stated. (Picture by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
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SALISBURY, N.C.
Two individuals had been shot and others had been injured as they fled gunfire that broke out at a North Carolina faculty homecoming live performance that includes rapper Asian Doll on Saturday night time, officers stated.
Officers known as to the campus of Livingstone School in Salisbury round 11 p.m. discovered two individuals shot and others who had been damage as attendees fled the gunfire, metropolis officers stated in a press release.
Video footage from the live performance reveals {that a} battle broke out whereas Asian Doll was on stage. One particular person, who is not a Livingstone pupil, then fired a number of pictures, police and faculty officers stated in a joint assertion.
A male sufferer with a gunshot wound was flown to Novant Well being Presbyterian Medical Middle in Charlotte, the place he was in secure situation, and a feminine sufferer with a graze wound was handled at an area hospital and launched, metropolis spokesperson Linda McElroy stated in a textual content on Sunday afternoon. She couldn’t say whether or not the victims had been adults.
No arrests had been made, McElroy stated.
Livingstone, a non-public, traditionally Black faculty, is situated in Salisbury, which is about 35 miles (56 kilometers) northeast of Charlotte.
The college’s precedence is to make sure college students’ psychological well being and consider public security measures to create a secure setting, Livingstone President Dr. Anthony J. Davis stated in a press release. The school is cooperating with police as they examine, he stated.
“I’m saddened as a result of our college students, alumni, household and pals had been uncovered to this mindless act of violence,” Davis stated.
The incident was not the one homecoming occasion to finish in a taking pictures over the weekend. Early Sunday, 4 individuals had been damage, together with three college students, in a taking pictures throughout Clark Atlanta College’s homecoming exterior a campus library as a DJ carried out.
This story was initially printed October 16, 2022 11:31 AM.