South Florida reserve lineman Benjamin Knox has been suspended from the team for firing a gun on campus.
In an act that can only be described as odd — police say the 21-year-old freshman fired at a dorm from a parking garage early Sunday according to News 9.
Around 4 a.m. Sunday, a campus police officer heard gunshots coming from the north-central part of campus, near the Marshall Student Center. A student also called in to report hearing gunshots followed by screeching tires.
Officers searched the parking garage there and found a parked vehicle with an open gun case, along with a box of ammunition “in plain sight,” a media release said.
They also found spent shell casings next to the vehicle, “where it appeared several random shots had been fired from a handgun.”
The shots took chuncks out of the exterior of the Holly D residence hall, where Knox lives. Police traced the vehicle to Knox, who was located in his room and arrested.
It’s still unknown if Knox had targeted any person or group and that it wasn’t clear why he fired the shots.