On Saturday (23) one person was killed and seven others were injured after a shooting at a party near Fort Valley State University in Georgia in the southern United States, local authorities said.
“Eight were shot dead. One of the eight was killed,” the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said on its Twitter account.
The authorities indicated that the dead man, 27, was not a student at the university.
The authorities have not yet provided information on the causes of the shooting, but they made it clear that the wounded are not in a serious condition and have been taken to nearby medical centers.
The university announced the cancellation of several activities planned for the weekend.
Fort Valley, with about 2,300 students, is a historic African American university founded in 1895 and located 100 miles from Atlanta.
