Student charged after shot fired at Kent State

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KENT, Ohio (AP) — The Kent State University freshman who
prompted a campus lockdown when he shot himself in the hand during a
domestic dispute remained jailed Thursday on a concealed weapon charge,
campus police said.
The man fired only once Wednesday night during
some sort of dispute with two female students, Police Chief John Peach
said. No one else was hurt.
The suspect, 24-year-old Quavaugntay
Tyler of Cleveland, told police he had a gun because he’d previously
been an armed robbery victim, Peach said. Tyler was taken into custody
at a hospital where he sought treatment for his wounded hand.
Peach
said the exact reason Tyler fired the weapon was not immediately clear.
Tyler then fled to a residence hall to ask a friend for help in hiding
the weapon before he went to the hospital, Peach said. The weapon was
found and the friend has not been charged, according to the chief.
Tyler
has been the subject of a campus theft investigation and was on
probation from a separate theft case in a different jurisdiction, Peach
said. He described Tyler as being cooperative with investigators.
It
took about two hours for authorities to give the all-clear Wednesday
night after the university advised people to stay put while
investigators searched for the suspect.
The school said Tyler is a
student in criminology and justice studies.
His case could be
evaluated for possible action under the school’s student conduct rules
separate from any criminal matter, said the dean of students, Dr. Shay
Little.
Kent State is a public research university in Kent, a city
of about 30,000 residents less than an hour’s drive southeast of
Cleveland. The university has eight campuses around the northeast Ohio
region, the Kent campus being the largest.
It is known for another
shooting that occurred decades ago. On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National
Guard opened fire on Kent State students protesting the war in Vietnam.
Four students died and nine were injured in the shootings, which
contributed to the change in the public’s attitude toward the war.
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