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 Justin Bernard Singleton, 19, was taken into custody for the
Friday shooting death of 20-year-old Brandon Robinson, a member of
the school's football team, the State Law Enforcement Division said
in a statement.
Police on Friday said they were searching for four suspects believed
to be involved in the shooting, which occurred at about 1:30 p.m.
EST (1830 GMT) on the campus of the college in Orangeburg, South
Carolina.
On Saturday, police said Singleton had shot Robinson in the neck
while the two were arguing outside a residence hall. Robinson later
died at a nearby hospital.
It was not immediately clear whether police were still looking for
other suspects.
Singleton is a sophomore at South Carolina State University, an
official at the school said on Saturday.
Robinson, a junior majoring in industrial engineering technology,
played outside linebacker and defensive end for the school's
football team, university officials said in a statement.
"Our hearts are heavy with grief and sorrow by the senseless act of
violence, which took too soon a beloved member of our university
family," University President Thomas J. Elzey said in the statement.
South Carolina State University has an enrollment of about 3,200
students. Orangeburg, a city of nearly 14,000 people, is located
about 75 miles northwest of Charleston.
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The shooting was the latest in a rash of gun attacks at schools
across the United States.
On Tuesday, a male student was shot and stabbed to death in a
classroom at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
The day before, a student was shot and critically wounded outside an
athletic center at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania, near
Philadelphia.
Last week, there were shootings of two students at a high school in
Philadelphia, one at a high school in Georgia and two at a middle
school in New Mexico.
(Reporting by Harriet McLeod; writing by Colleen Jenkins;
editing by
Lisa Von Ahn)
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