Just before midnight, officials said it was no longer an “active shooting” situation. The shelter-in-place order was lifted early Wednesday and the university said campus shuttle service would resume.
Worley said the decision was made to reopen the campus without anyone in custody after SWAT cleared a building where police believed the shooter may have gone.
“They cleared every single floor twice and after that we realized the campus was most likely safe,” he said.
Students were leaving a coronation ceremony and were headed to a student center when the gunfire happened, University President David Wilson said.
The coronation ceremony is part of the school’s homecoming week.
Wilson attended the coronation ceremony, in which “Mr. and Ms. Morgan State University” are crowned, and he called it a “beautiful event.”
He said the shooting was a “very tragic incident” and one that would not define the university.
“Morgan State University will not be deterred. We will continue forward,” he said.
Classes are canceled Wednesday, Wilson said.
Morgan State says on its website that it is among the nation’s most diverse historically Black colleges and universities and the largest in Maryland. It had around 9,100 students in last fall’s semester, it said.
The FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said they were assisting Baltimore police.
Danielle Jackson contributed.
