One wounded in shooting at St. Louis' Washington University

Source: Reuters

One wounded in shooting at St. Louis' Washington University

April 20, 2016

(Reuters) - One person was wounded in a shooting at Washington University in St. Louis and the campus was temporarily locked down, the private school said on Wednesday.

The shooting took place near the Mallinckrodt Center, the student union on the main Danforth Campus, the private university said in a statement.

The victim has been taken to hospital and the injuries were not thought to be life-threatening, it said. An alert for people to seek shelter was lifted after about an hour and 40 minutes.

The school, which has about 13,000 full-time students, referred queries to Clayton, Missouri, police. A police spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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