Two People Shot Dead At US University

Michigan State Police cars are on the scene of the shooting at Central Michigan University on March 2, 2018, in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. Photo: Rachel Woolf/Getty Images/AFP

Two people were shot dead Friday on the campus of a university in the US state of Michigan, setting off a manhunt for the suspected gunman.

Central Michigan University said the two people killed at a campus dormitory were not students or staff, but did not offer further details on their identities.

There were no other casualties.

A university police spokesman said the incident as a “family-type domestic issue” and identified the suspected shooter as 19-year-old James Eric Davis, described as a university student.

The college campus in the city of Mount Pleasant in central Michigan was on lockdown hours after the incident, as an expansive manhunt searched for the suspect.

Davis was known to law enforcement. Police took him to a hospital the night before for what was believed to be a “drug-related type…