U.S. UNREST Two Students Shot Dead

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32298, 16 May 1970, Page 11

U.S. UNREST Two Students Shot Dead

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) JACKSON (Mississippi), May 15. Policemen who say they were returning sniper fire, opened fire on a girls’ dormitory at Jackson State College today, killing at least two students and wounding eleven.

The dead and in jured have not yet been identified. The police were called to the campus shortly before midnight after motorists had reported that stones and bottles were being thrown at cars passing through the campus area. It was the second night of violence at the mainly Negro co-educational school of 5000 students. The police and about 500 National Guardsmen moved through the campus after the shooting, and officials say that guns are still being fired.

Witnesses say that almost all the windows in the fourstorey, brick-built dormitory had been shot out. Today’s shooting came only 11 days after National Guardsmen had shot dead four stud-

ents and wounded nine others when they opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators at Kent State University, Ohio. The Kent University demonstrators were protesting against President Nixon’s decision to send United States

troops into Cambodia’. The Associated Press reports that 15 students were carried out of the dormitory at Jackson after today's shooting, but whether these had

been wounded or cut by flying glass is not known. A barrage of gunfire, lasting from seven to 10 seconds,' was directed at the building, and students in front of the) building dropped to the ground to take cover. The police say that they were returning fire. Students looking out of the windows of other dormitories screamed at the officers. Meanwhile, clouds of teargas floated over college campuses in Ohio and Maryland again last night as student protests against United States involvement in South-East Asia continued. National Guardsmen and

state policemen, marching' shoulder to shoulder, used; tear-gas to clear Highway No. 1 near the University of Mary-, land, where 5000 students! were jamming the road. Others occupied the admini-

stration building after the faculty had voted against allowing the students to decide if they wanted to receive grades based on work completed when a student strike shut the school on May 1. The police also used tear-

gas to disperse about 2000 stone-throwing students on the Ohio University at Athens while more than 1000 National Guardsmen remained on the alert off the campus.