A shooting on Thursday inside a student housing complex on the campus of South Carolina State University left two people dead and a third wounded, police officials said.
The identities of the dead victims, both male, were unclear on Friday afternoon, and it was not known whether they were students. One of the men died at the scene and the other at a hospital, police officials said. The condition of the wounded person, also male, was also unclear. No suspect was in custody.
The shooting, which occurred around 9:15 p.m. inside a room at the Hugine Suites complex, prompted university officials to place the campus on lockdown for about eight hours overnight. School officials later canceled classes on Friday and said that counseling services for students would be available.
The killings were the second deadly shooting on campus, and third shooting overall, in four months. Two shootings on campus occurred during the university’s October homecoming. One left a 19-year-old woman dead. In the other, a man was injured. Neither was a student, and the shootings were unrelated, officials said.
The violence that month rattled the campuses of South Carolina State and neighboring Claflin University. The two universities, both of them historically Black colleges, sit beside each other in Orangeburg, S.C, roughly 50 miles southeast of Columbia.
Local media reported that the October shootings — which occurred near the same housing complex as Thursday’s shooting — led to the arrest of at least two teenage suspects.
The mayor of Orangeburg, Michael C. Butler, said in a statement on social media on Friday that the city was heartbroken by the recent killings and asked for patience as the investigation unfolded.
“To the students of SC State and to every resident of our city — we are with you,” Mr. Butler said in the statement. “We will continue to support our university partners and do everything within our power to promote safety, peace and healing in our community.”
Chris Hippensteel is a reporter covering breaking news and a member of the 2025-26 Times Fellowship class, a program for journalists early in their careers.
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