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Two people have been killed and a third wounded in a shooting at the University of Central Arkansas (UCA), police said today.

Lieutenant Rhonda Swindle, a spokeswoman for the university’s police force, said the shots were fired shortly after 9pm (1600 GMT) yesterday near a dormitory. She said she could not say whether the victims were students, but all three were male.

Swindle said the campus, in the city of Conway, would remain locked down today, with classes cancelled. She did not have any information about suspects, though the UCA police’s website said one person was in custody and three others were being sought.

Source: Arkansas campus shooting kills two

U.S. university campuses have reassessed their security since April 2007, when a student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University killed 32 students and teachers before committing suicide in the deadliest shooting rampage in the country’s history. Five people were shot dead by a former student at Northern Illinois University in February.