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One Person Injured in UALR Shooting

posted 9:24 am Thu February 28, 2008 - Little Rock

tags: ualr • shooting • campus

A student was injured Wednesday in a shooting on a campus parking lot at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Two suspects were at large but the school did not believe others on campus were at risk.

Shots were fired at 2:10 p.m. in a parking lot near University Theatre and Stabler Hall. The victim staggered to a parking lot near the theatre, where ambulance attendants reached him and administered emergency care before taking him to a hospital.

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UALR spokeswoman Joan Duffy identified the victim as 33-year-old James Earl Matthews.

UALR Police Chief Brad King says officers believe the incident was an isolated one.

King says Matthews was shot as he walked on a sidewalk about 70 yards from the University Theatre. He made it across a small lawn into a parking lot where his black 1990s Honda Prelude was parked.

King says the two men who accosted Matthews immediately left campus after the shooting in a gold colored car. Twenty minutes after the shooting, the university sent an alert by telephone and e-mail to students and campus employees. It wasn't immediately known whether they were told to take cover. King says the alert system worked.

Jon Atwood, a 26-year-old senior mass communications major from Little Rock, says he saw Matthews lying on the ground. Atwood says he hadn't heard any gunshots, but Matthews was moaning.

UALR officials said Matthews was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Latest Comment on One Person Injured in UALR Shooting

mom212

4:26 pm on 02/28/08

What is wrong with you people? God created all of us! The soul has no color! This young man could have died yesterday! Does that not concern you? My child was there........it scared me to death. I can only imagine how this young man's mother feels. I pray for her as she loves and cares for her son! How do we know this was related to drugs? WE DON"T! SO STOP JUDGING AND STARTING PRAYING! GOD HELP YOU PEOPLE!

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