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Cousins! Please join us as we send prayers up to the students of Howard University following a brutal attack at the hands of nearly fifty Washington D.C residents!
According to reports from NBC News, the incident occurred early Monday morning as a series of students were attacked by a large group while on campus grounds near the school’s residence halls. It has been stated that at least one of the students was left stabbed and the others injured following the violent attack.
“I was prepared to die,” one victim said. “When I was on the ground getting stomped out, I just stopped feeling the pain at one point.”
The victims described the group as being a bunch of D.C locals.
“It was like maybe 5, 10, 20,” said one victim. “And one lunges at me, so I square up.”
Sources state that two students were able to escape but others were left behind.
“They just started kicking us, punching us,” another victim said. “We were getting jumped.”
Another victim says, “He got stabbed in the back and he got just beat on by like 30 people, him by himself, and security looked at him on the ground, watched his body go limp, and just walked away. Didn’t call anybody; didn’t do anything,” a victim said.
Howard’s campus police chief confirm that at least one juvenile suspect was arrested along with the discovery of a handgun.
He also announced both an internal and external investigation is underway. It has been stated that following the incident a university police lieutenant has been suspended includung a third-party security contractor who has been removed from campus.
The university share their plans to install over a thousand new cameras around campus . They are also arranging for new safety paths indicating that students will be informed of which routes to take to make sure a security officer is within 100 feet, reports NBC news.