Two students were killed with one injured in an apparent murder-suicide at the University of Maryland on Tuesday.
At least two students have been killed and one injured in a shooting at the University of Maryland in the latest gun violence in the country.
Two university students were killed and one injured in an apparent murder-suicide at an off-campus residence in the US city of Campus Park on Tuesday, local police said.
As described by the authorities, when a student confronted his roommate for setting a fire in the basement of their shared house, he opened fire, killing one and injuring the other, and then killed himself.
The names of the victims were not released but it was noted that all three were male.
This comes as three people, including a gunman, were killed and two police officers injured after a shooting broke out at a courthouse in the US state of Delaware on Monday.
On December 14, 2012, a 20-year-old man, identified as Adam Lanza, killed twenty children and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.
The United States experienced several mass killings in 2012, including the Colorado cinema shooting in July that killed 12 people and injured nearly 60 others. In August, a killing spree at a Sikh temple left seven people dead.
Every year, more than 30,000 people are shot and killed in the US.
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