Police: 3 stabbed at Morgan State University
BALTIMORE - Two groups of people got into a fight Tuesday outside a dining hall on the Morgan State University campus, and two football players were stabbed by someone swinging a knife wildly, police and college officials said.
It was the third instance of violence on the Baltimore campus in less than a week.
The players were taken to hospitals and their injuries were not considered to be life-threatening, police said. A third person was not injured by a knife but suffered abrasions in the incident, police spokesman Detective Ruganzu Howard said Wednesday.
A suspect was taken into custody. It's not clear what started the fight.
This is the third instance of recent violence. On Friday, a male student was stabbed with scissors by his roommate after an argument over the cleanliness of their dorm room.
Early Saturday, an on-campus party was broken up after fights started.
According to CBS Baltimore, the dining hall stabbing incident may have spilled over from an altercation at the party Friday night.
School officials held a campus meeting Tuesday night to talk about what happened.
"We expect you as students to take responsibility for your own behavior and actions," University president David Wilson told those in attendance.
Earlier Tuesday, Wilson sent an email to students that declared "This is not Morgan!"
Kevin Banks, vice president for student affairs, repeated that assertion.
"The stuff you've seen on TV the past few days is not Morgan State University," Banks said.
Wilson also said no text alerts were sent to students immediately after the stabbing because "the general public was not in imminent danger because this was a fight between known parties and not a random act of violence."
But Freshman Shakia Marine, 20, who did not attend the campus meeting, said she is a little worried about the latest spate of violence.
"My godfather has concerns about me coming here," Marine said. "There needs to be more security guards walking around. After today, it made me feel scared. My roommate said we should get some Mace to protect ourselves. I think the school needs to take more action. It's not the first time something like this has happened."
Morgan State is the largest historically black university in Maryland and has about 6,000 students, according to its website.