An unknown assailant fatally shot two people on the campus of Louisiana's Grambling State University after midnight on Wednesday, then fled the scene, Lincoln Parish sheriff's spokesman Stephen Williams said Wednesday morning. Will Sutton, Grambling's media relations director, said the shooting occurred during a confrontation in a campus courtyard. Local ABC News affiliate KNOE identified the victims as Grambling students Earl Andrews and Monquiarius Caldwell, both 23.
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