The campus of South Carolina State College was underneath a lockdown Saturday evening following a reported taking pictures at a residence corridor, in line with a discover on the college’s web site.
Within the discover, the college stated the campus was on lockdown following “pictures fired at Hugine Suites.”
There isn’t any phrase on any accidents.
The Hugine Suites residence corridor on the campus of South Carolina State College.
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The State Legislation Enforcement Division was being requested to research, the college stated.
The college stated college students within the Hugine Suites dorm ought to stay put, and others ought to keep away and return to their very own residence halls. Others had been requested to depart the campus.
The college stated a homecoming live performance scheduled for Saturday evening has been canceled.
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott stated in a press release on X, “My workplace is carefully monitoring the state of affairs at South Carolina State College. Praying for everybody’s security on campus.”
The college, with a scholar inhabitants of about 2,900 college students, is situated within the metropolis of Orangeburg, in central South Carolina.