6 NC Central students now charged in campus dorm shooting, including the one who got shot
Three more students were arrested Monday in the April 2 shooting at an N.C. Central University dormitory that sent one student to the hospital.
For the first time, NCCU officials said Tuesday that one of the six students arrested and charged is also the one who was shot.
No one has been charged with the actual shooting, however, and officials said they anticipate “further arrests.”
Here are the students facing charges:
▪ Keyatta Carmichael, E’Rico Hill and Jayiana Mitchell voluntarily surrendered to campus police Monday and were charged with conspiring to commit armed robbery.
▪ That’s the same charge facing Paris Amos, Shazyah Bell, and Eric Randall, who were previously arrested. Randall was also charged with conspiracy to commit assault with a deadly weapon
Hill was identified as the victim during the incident at Lawson Street Residence Hall, NCCU said. He has been released from the hospital, NCCU said Tuesday.
The university still has not said what happened that night. The News & Observer obtained 911 calls from the incident, but they do not clarify the events, other than to say where Hill was shot.
The shooting prompted an NCCU Eagle Alert, which said there was an “armed and dangerous person” on Lawson Street.
The campus was locked down for almost three hours, until about 12:50 a.m. on April 3, when campus police Chief Damon Williams said there no longer was any threat to the community.
The night of the shooting
On the night of the shooting, police responded to a call about 10:15 p.m. about possible gunshots at the dorm near Fayetteville Street, The News & Observer previously reported.
Emergency Medical Services workers on campus for an unrelated medical call “rendered aid to one person who sustained one or more gunshot wounds,” the university said.
The following day, the university said it had learned the “physical identities of the suspects..”
Residence halls on campus require card-key entry at all hours, said Stephen W. Fusi, chief brand officer for the university, in an email.
