Vigil For Murdered UCA Students

Authorities are looking for a fourth suspect. They have three in custody. Police say they are confident that all four suspects have been identified and they are not students.

Interim UCA President Tom Courtway canceled classes Monday at the university, which serves 12,500 students. Monday morning during a press conference, he said that the campus is safe and they will be reviewing their safety procedures. He said classes will resume Tuesday. (Click play on the video box to watch the entire press conference.)

UCA police Lt. Rhonda Swindle says the first report of shots fired came at 9:19 p.m. Sunday. An officer heard the shooting, which occurred near a male dormitory and behind the campus police station, and arrived to the scene in less than a minute, she said.

Witnesses described hearing as many as five gunshots ring out. One man fell to the sidewalk along the narrow alley between the Arkansas Hall dormitory and the Snow Fine Arts Center and died. Swindle said the two others rushed into the dorm, where paramedics later found them.

Swindle says students Ryan Henderson of Little Rock, 18, and Charvares Block of Dermott, 19, were killed. The bodies will be sent to the state Crime Laboratory in Little Rock for autopsies.

One of the men died at a local hospital, while another who wasn't a student, Martrevis Norman of Blytheville, was treated and released.

Swindle says two people were questioned overnight but that no arrests were made. One suspect was pulled over by police, and another turned himself in to the police station. A third was brought in Monday afternoon.

She says investigators are working on good leads. She says video from surveillance cameras will be examined.

Police used crime scene tape to keep people out of a large area around where the shootings occurred, including a nearby intersection. Pools of blood still stained the cold cement sidewalk early Monday morning. Firefighters worked to hose the blood away.

Courtway says he thought police officers and the university's emergency alert system performed well in the minutes after the shooting. However, he promised to conduct a thorough examination of the shooting to ensure students' safety in the future.

Faculty and students received phone calls and e-mails through an automated system shortly after 9:30 p.m. Sunday night warning them of the shooting and encouraging them to stay inside behind locked doors. It was the first use of the university's new emergency e-mail and phone call system, purchased last year after the Virginia Tech massacre.

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