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One killed and six injured after shooting at Pennsylvania’s Lincoln University

police car parked by sign saying 'lincoln university'
Authorities work the scene on Sunday at Pennsylvania's Lincoln University during the historically Black school’s homecoming weekend. Photograph: Kyle Mazza/Shutterstock

At least one person was killed and six others wounded in a shooting at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania late on Saturday, as students and alumni celebrated homecoming at outdoor festivities at the historically Black university, authorities said.

A person who had a firearm was detained, and officials are investigating the possibility that there was more than one shooter but do not believe there is any active threat to the campus, Chester county’s district attorney, Christopher de Barrena-Sarobe, said during a brief news conference early on Sunday.

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