South Carolina police officials arrested a teen in connection with the fatal shooting of a student on Friday, outside a South Carolina State University dormitory.
Justin Bernard, 19, was charged with the murder of 20-year-old Brandon Robinson, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said in a press release. Robinson was declared dead Friday afternoon. Following the incident the university went on lockdown.
Singleton was taken into custody in Orangeburg by police officials on Saturday, reported the Associated Press.
"At this time, we believe we have the individual who fired the shot," Thom Berry, a public information officer with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, said, Miami Herald reported.
Police had initially begun a manhunt for four likely suspects in the murder case. "Our investigation is continuing," Thom Berry, public information officer for the law enforcement division, told the Associated Press..
According to the University Police Chief Mernard Clarkson, the university decided to lockdown as the gunmen left the campus before the police caught them and the officials did not want them to return to the campus.
The reason for the murder is unclear. "He (Robinson) was a very nice young man," university President Thomas Elzey said in a brief statement, Friday, reported CNN. "And it hurts. It hurts us all."
This is the third campus shooting in the U.S. this week. The Tippecanoe County prosecutor's office charged Cody Cousins, a 23-year-old Purdue University student, for killing a teaching assistant Andrew Boldt, Tuesday
On Monday, a Pennsylvania undergraduate student was shot and seriously injured in a parking lot near the Schwartz Athletic Center, Widener University, at around 8:45 p.m. on Monday. Police are yet to nab the suspect.
