A freshman who attends Morgan State University is speaking out for the first time and detailing what happened to her as the traumatic event unfolded.
Mauril says she was inside the Murphy Fine Arts Center for the homecoming coronation events standing near the front door when bullets hit the windows. “Everyone was running and we couldn’t see,” said Mauril. “All I saw was the glass window shatter. I heard the bullets and it just came down on me. I was like, okay, so now, it was just run. The only thought that I had was run, stay low and run.
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“I was just in shock. I didn’t want to believe what was happening was real,” said Mauril. She then explained that officers and staff escorted her to her dorm where Mauril and some friends sat there in fear while a mass shooting was taking place. “We turned off all the lights. We tried to keep quiet as possible. We sat in the farthest corner away from the window and away from the door of the room. We were just praying to God that we could stay safe and everybody outside was safe,” said Mauril.
As we previously reported, Four students were among five people shot during Homecoming week at Morgan State University in Baltimore. The victims — four men and one woman, between 18 and 22 years old — all suffered non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said.
The gunfire broke out Tuesday night “on campus within the vicinity of the Murphy Fine Arts Center and Thurgood Marshall Hall,” according to David Wilson, the president of the historically black university.
“It looks like a dispute between two smaller groups, and one individual was a target of two individuals who had weapons,” Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said.
None of the five people shot were the intended target, he said. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott added that it didn’t appear that the shooting was racially motivated.
The mayor said, “The entire city of Baltimore’s heart aches for the Morgan community, for these victims and their families and for our city as a whole.” He called for “national action, especially from Congress.”
Morgan State classes for the remaining week were canceled and so was their homecoming.
