The gunman who shot two people at Lone Star College near Houston has been identified as 22-year-old Carlton Berry. Spokesman Alan Bernstein said Berry is charged with aggravated assault but remains hospitalized with wounds suffered in the shooting.
Shots were fired on campus of Lone Star College around 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Fortunately, no one was killed in yesterday’s school shooting.
The shooting is said to have stemmed from an argument between a student and another man. The shooter was later identified as Carlton Berry, 22. Police have not identified the other man involved in the fight, he was shot three times and is reportedly in critical condition at Ben Taub Hospital.
Investigators say a maintenance man in his 50’s was caught in the crossfire and also taken to a hospital. A fourth person, a woman in her mid-50’s suffered from a medical condition during the incident. She was hospitalized and is in stable condition.
The shooting took place in the central courtyard of the campus in the 2700 block of W.W. Thorne Drive in North Harris County.
As of Wednesday morning, Berry was out of the hospital and in the county jail.
“He said, ‘I don’t want to fight you, I’m not trying to go to jail,” said Eyyonna Fontenot, a student who witnessed the argument and shooting.
She said the gunman initially walked away, but then changed his mind when the other man said something else.
“Whatever ticked him off, whatever they said, got it out of his backpack and just started shooting,” she said. “I just ran out of there cause I didn’t want to die, I have two kids.”
Lone Star College student Brittany Mobley said:
“I saw two dudes basically get into an altercation and the dude that shot, he basically got angry and started shooting the other guy,” said Mobley. “A lot of people heard a lot of shots.”
Mobley said the suspect had the gun hidden in his clothes.
Around 2:15 p.m., the suspected gunman turned himself in at Northwest Medical Center with a gunshot wound, according to law enforcement sources.
Lone Star College was closed for the rest of day, but students and faculty were allowed to return to pick up their cars and other belongings. The shooting comes only a month after the massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn., in which 20 students and six staff members were shot.
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