Two Southern University female athletes are dead and another man injured after a triple shooting early Sunday morning near LSU’s campus, according to Baton Rouge police.
Southern University system president Roy Belton released this statement:
Statement from .@SouthernU_BR on student deaths: .@WAFB pic.twitter.com/4S6Wsnrf7y
— Elizabeth Vowell (@ElizabethWAFB) April 10, 2016
Baton Rouge police were able to confirm the two women killed are 19-year-old Southern University students. One woman was pronounced dead at the scene. The other was taken to a Baton Rouge hospital where she was pronounced dead.
The third victim is a 24-year-old man who’s expected to survive.