Deadly Shooting Near Auburn University Campus Leaves Multiple Victims

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The police chief in the Alabama university city of Auburn said authorities responded during the night to a report of multiple gunshot victims at an apartment complex, but he released no immediate information as the building dawned Sunday cordoned in yellow tape. Auburn Police Chief Tommy Dawson told the Opelika-Auburn News that police answered the report of multiple shooting victims on Saturday night but he had no immediate comment on what happened or whether anyone was in custody.

News photographs showed several emergency vehicles had converged overnight around the University Heights apartment complex where reports indicated a number of students who attend Auburn University typically reside. At dawn Sunday, an Associated Press reporter at the scene said several uniformed law enforcement officers were standing about a disaster relief trailer parked at the building’s entrance, which appeared to be a sort of command center, and all was quiet as some bystanders milled about.

An Auburn police dispatcher contacted by The Associated Press said early Sunday she had no immediate information to release. Police did not immediately return repeated telephone messages seeking comment. A local coroner’s office also said it had no information on the situation to immediately give out. The disaster relief trailer was parked near the entrance to the University Heights apartment complex and lare amounts of yellow tape roped off areas around a front entrance area. An Auburn police truck had towed a large array of spotlights to the area outside the building and they were brilliantly lighting up the entrance to the complex early on a dark, overcast morning.

Auburn University campus police said they had no information and referred calls to city police. Vasha Hunt, a photographer with the Opelika-Auburn News, was at the apartment complex hours earlier and told AP by telephone before dawn that authorities had set up a white tent there where there was a lot of activity. He said police kept a number of bystanders back for hours away from the scene. Hunt said at least some of those who initially gathered outside appeared to be residents waiting for permission to enter their apartments and about a dozen police cars, ambulances and other emergency vehicles were parked nearby. Some other reports said students looking on in a somber mood at the scene and that some complex residents who showed identification were later let back into their apartments.

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