One student dead, 11 wounded in off campus shooting near Youngstown State

By Lamar Salter

One Youngstown State U. student is dead and 11 wounded after an off campus shooting on Indiana Avenue during a party early this morning.

YSU student Jamail Johnson was killed in the shooting exchange and the 11 wounded are being treated at the St. Elizabeth Medical Center.

In a statement released by the university, police are “in the process of identifying suspects.” YSU president Cynthia Anderson appeared at the hospital to be with students and their families, according to the statement.

“I want to express my deepest sympathies to the family of the student who died in this tragic act of violence, and to ask everyone to keep him and the other students in their thoughts and prayers,” President Anderson said. “It is a sad day for the YSU family,” Anderson said in the statement.

In a YSU text alert, YSUPD Chief John Gocala reported no threat to the campus but that YSU police would increase its presence on campus.

Stay tuned to the Jambar for more information on this story as it develops today.

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