Police make arrest in Seton Hall shooting

  Eyewitness NewsSOUTH ORANGE (WABC) -- Police have made an arrest in the shooting of a Seton Hall University student.

Authorities say 20-year-old Joseph Fowler was one of three people who broke into an off-campus apartment in South Orange Tuesday night.

One student in the apartment was shot in the arm, while another was pistol-whipped.

Police say Fowler is a former Seton Hall student.

The two other suspects are still on the loose.

Officers received reports of shots fire just after 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Grove Terrace Apartments. Moments later, a student showed up at the station saying he'd been shot.

Police have said the attack was not random.

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Violent night at Seton Hall: 1 student shot, 1 assaulted

  Eyewitness NewsSOUTH ORANGE (WABC) -- Police in New Jersey are searching for suspects after a Seton Hall student was shot and another assaulted.

The gunfire rang out in an off-campus apartment right next to police headquarters.

South Orange police are looking for a number of people, and they haven't been much more specific than that.

Officers received reports of shots fire just after 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Grove Terrace Apartments. Moments later, a student showed up at the station saying he'd been shot.

During the investigation, authorities discovered that another student had been assaulted.

Both students are being treated at University Hospital in Newark for non-life threatening injuries.

Police are making it clear that the attack was not random, but no arrests have yet been made.

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Seton Hall to hold 'shooter-on-campus' drill Tuesday

  Eyewitness NewsEAST ORANGE (WABC) -- Expect to see plenty of police officers at Seton Hall University on Tuesday.

Officials will be holding a one-day exercise designed to prepare the university and law enforcement officials to respond in the event there is an active shooter on campus.

Officials are reminding the public that this is only a drill, and there is no cause for alarm.

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