UPDATE: A vigil is planned for 7 p.m. Thursday at 53rd and Brooklyn streets in Kansas City to honor Jasmine Lynn.
ATLANTA – A college in Atlanta has set up a
Web page to provide students, staff and parents update and statements about a student from Kansas City, Mo., who was killed by a stray bullet early Thursday morning on a nearby college campus.
Atlanta police say Jasmine Lynn, a student at
Spelman College in Atlanta and a 2008 graduate of Lincoln College Preparatory Academy in Kansas City, was walking down the street around 12:30 a.m. at nearby
Clark Atlanta University when a fight broke out near where she was walking.
Authorities said ballistics reports indicate six shots were all fired from the same gun. Lynn, 19, was struck and killed and a second person, an 18-year-old male Clark student, was struck in the wrist.
According to police, several people witnessed the shooting.
"One of the friends actually heard the gunshots, actually saw the weapon and told her to get on the ground," Atlanta Police Lt. Keith Meadows said. "Before she was able to get on the ground she was struck in the chest by a stray round."
Meadows said Clark Atlanta security cameras may have captured parts of the incident and investigators were working with university officials to review those tapes.
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statement issued Thursday morning from Clark Atlanta said one person had been apprehended near the scene, but at a 10:30 a.m. CST news conference from the Clark campus, authorities said that person was a witness to the incident and not a suspect.
