Northern Arizona University student opens fire during campus fight, kills 1, wounds 3
BY MEG WAGNER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Friday, October 9, 2015, 6:43 PM
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Colin Brough was fatally shot during a shooting outside a dorm at Northern Arizona University on Oct. 9, 2015.
A Northern Arizona University freshman, after answering a punch with a spray of gunfire, was arrested Friday for killing one fraternity member and wounding three more.
Student Steven Jones, 18, was charged with one count of first-degree murder and three counts of aggravated assault after the 1:20 a.m. Flagstaff, Ariz., campus killing.
According to court documents, Jones ran to his car and grabbed a gun after a late-night confrontation where he was hit in the face during a parking lot dispute.
The 18-year-old freshman has been charged with first-degree murder and three counts of aggravated assault.
Jones was with two friends when they began squabbling with the fraternity members, and the confrontation quickly escalated, officials said.
Jones — whose handgun was fitted with a flashlight — fatally shot Delta Chi fraternity member Colin Brough from less than 10 feet away, officials said.
DAVID ZALUBOWSKI/APBouquets and a cards sit on the front step of the home of Colin Brough, the student killed in a shooting at Northern Arizona University.
The injured students' conditions and their relationship to the gunman, since charged with first-degree murder and three counts of aggravated assault, are unclear.
The Arizona shooting came just hours before President Obama is set to visit Roseburg, Ore., where nine people were slaughtered on the Umpqua Community College campus on Oct. 1.
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Steven Jones, 18, was taken into police custody after the shooting.
Funerals for the Oregon victims started Thursday. More are planned for the weekend and next week.
Arizona students heard sirens echoing across campus about 1:30 a.m. Friday and learned about the shooting from Mountain View residents who reported shots fired on social media, NAU freshman Mackenzie Cutrone told the Daily News. Thanks to the alert glitch, she didn’t get the university’s messages about the attack until after the gunman was already in custody.
“That’s what’s absolutely crazy,” said Cutrone, who lives in a dorm on the other side of campus. “The only way I found out about all of this was because of Twitter and Yik Yak.”
She continued: “They didn’t say a thing today until after 2:30 a.m., after they already had the guy in custody. It was a little disappointing.”
Fowler said he was not aware of the timeline of messages, but maintained that the alert system worked properly.
“The situation was stabilized right away,” he said at the early morning press conference, as a group of somber students huddled in the back of the audience.
Rumors about the suspected gunman’s motives swirled on social media, Cutrone said. Some students reported that the shooting, which could have happened in the dorm's courtyard, may have stemmed from an argument over money, she said.
President Obama, who landed in Oregon on Friday, has not commented on the Arizona shooting.
After the Oregon campus shooting last week, a visibly irate Obama suggested the blood of Americans has been repeatedly spilled because of partisan politics.
“Somehow this has become routine,” he said just hours after the bloody attack. “The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine. We’ve become numb to this ... It cannot be this easy for somebody who wants to inflict harm on other people to get a gun.”
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Another WIN for the NRA and RWNJ's!!!!!! Another gun that was purchased legally and used to express the 1st and 2nd Amendments!!
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