Police have released surveillance video of the gunmen and a black sport-utility vehicle involved in the shooting at Bethune-Cookman University that left three students hurt Monday night.
The video shows a black Chevrolet HHR, or similar vehicle, pulling into the parking lot that separates the music building from the football team’s practice field about 6:40 p.m., according to Daytona Beach Police.
A man is seen exiting the vehicle and shouting at someone who was about 100 yards away, a news release said.
“The person that cannot be seen fires several rounds at the [man] standing outside of the black vehicle, he in turn, fires several rounds and the vehicle leaves,” the release said.
Police recovered two different types of shell casings at the scene.
But investigators have not found anyone who saw the actual shooting, police said.
The students suffered non-life-threatening injuries. One had a grazed wound to the shoulder, which required several sutures, police said.
Another victim refused treatment. He had a grazed wound to his left ear area.
“He advised that he heard gunshots and got on the ground on his side and a bullet grazed his ear,” police said.
The third victim received a grazed wound to the right knee.
“He is not cooperating with the investigation,” police said.
The students’ names have not been released.
Two people were detained immediately after the shooting by campus security.
“No one has been charged and the two detainees are cooperating witnesses who did not see the shooter but heard the gunshots and started to run,” police said.
The suspected shooter fled the scene in the sport-utility vehicle, according to police, and apparently had a back pack.
An investigation is ongoing.
It is not clear what led to the shooting.
Bethune-Cookman University President Dr. Edison O. Jackson spoke to students and faculty Tuesday morning.
The town hall meeting began at 10:30 a.m. in the university’s Performing Arts Center.
“Our public-safety officers responded swiftly to secure the campus and we are grateful that the injuries sustained by our students were non-life threatening,” Jackson said in a statement. “As a community we will gather to remind our students of the importance of upholding the core values on which this university was built.”
Bethune-Cookman, founded in 1904 by Mary McLeod Bethune, is one of three private historically black colleges in Florida.
Bethune, a child of former slaves, opened the school to help the advancement of blacks through education, according to the school’s website.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crimestoppers of Volusia County at 888-277-8477.
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