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 The suspected gunman, Steven Jones, a freshman at the state
university in northern Arizona, was taken into custody following the
shooting, campus Police Chief Gregory Fowler said.
Jones was charged with first-degree murder and three counts of
aggravated assault and was ordered held on $2 million bond at a
brief court appearance.
Fowler said Jones pulled the handgun in a confrontation with several
students.
The university identified the student who was killed as Colin
Brough. Brough was from Annapolis, Maryland, according to an online
article by the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis.
The three injured students, identified as Nicholas Prato, Kyle
Zientek and Nicholas Piring, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and
were being treated at Flagstaff Medical Center, Fowler said. Their
conditions were not disclosed.
The shooting occurred just hours before President Barack Obama was
scheduled to visit Roseburg, Oregon, to meet privately with families
of the nine people killed in a mass shooting at a community college
there last week.
 Northern Arizona University, with a student body of about 20,000, is
located in the mountain city of Flagstaff, about 140 miles north of
Phoenix, and about 80 miles south of the Grand Canyon.
A university spokeswoman said Friday's incident occurred in a
parking lot next to a residence hall for Greek organizations -
fraternities and sororities - around 1:20 a.m.
"We don't know the facts yet about what brought them together, or
what caused the confrontation," Fowler said.
Delta Chi International Fraternity executive director Justin Sherman
said the four victims were members of the fraternity but the alleged
gunman was not.
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Jones, who did not try to flee, was arrested by university police
and was cooperating with authorities, Fowler said. He said guns are
not allowed to be carried on campus.
Classes continued on Friday, university president Rita Cheng told a
news conference, calling the incident isolated.
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey and U.S. Senator John McCain, both
Republicans, extended thoughts and prayers to the victims and their
families.
Obama reacted to the killings in Oregon by vowing to step up efforts
to curb U.S. gun violence. Gun rights advocates said the Oregon
shootings underscored the importance of the right of Americans to
bear arms and defend themselves.
Just hours after the Arizona shooting, police said one person was
killed and another wounded in a shooting at an apartment complex
near the campus of Texas Southern University in Houston, and a
suspect had been taken into custody.
(Additional reporting by Suzannah Gonzales in Chicago, Curtis
Skinner in San Francisco and Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles; Editing by
Will Dunham, James Dalgleish and Leslie Adler)
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