SIU student killed, three people wounded at off- campus party
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CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — A Southern Illinois University student died after she and three other people were shot early Sunday during a party near the school’s campus, police said.
SIU freshman Keeshanna Jackson was pronounced dead at a hospital after being shot about 3 a.m. Sunday in Carbondale just north of the university’s campus.
Three other gunshot victims came into the emergency room at Memorial Hospital of Carbondale with gunshot wounds as police were investigating Jackson’s shooting. Police said those three victims had suffered non-life-threatening wounds and came on their own to the ER.
The shooting near the SIU campus came just after the first week of fall semester classes, The Southern Illinoisan reported.
The school’s chancellor, Austin Lane, said in a statement that the campus com- munity was “heartbroken“ by Jackson’s death.
Javiana Boyd attended a candlelight vigil on Sunday night for Jackson, who was her cousin. She said Jackson decided at the last minute to enroll at SIU and had driven her own U-Haul down from Chicago.
