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The shootings,
which occurred just before 11 p.m. local time, appeared to have
stemmed from a dispute over a dice game in an outdoor courtyard,
the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said.
The male who died was not enrolled at the school, a university
spokeswoman said. Police have not said whether the other
individuals involved were students or visiting the campus.
It was unclear if a suspect was in custody.
The three gunshot victims were transported to Vanderbilt
University Medical Center, said Tanya Stone, operations
supervisor for the Metro Nashville emergency communication
center.
The two who survived had injuries not considered
life-threatening, the Tennessean newspaper reported.
Last week, three people were shot and wounded during a large
house party near the Tennessee State University campus.
The incidents come amid a string of gun violence at or near
several U.S. schools in October, including deadly incidents on
the campus of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and
adjacent to Texas Southern University in Houston.
On Oct. 1, a gunman killed nine people at a community college in
Oregon, ranking it among the deadliest of dozens of U.S. mass
shootings in the past two years.
(Reporting by Victoria Cavaliere in Los Angeles; Editing by Paul
Tait and Dominic Evans)
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