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Ohio college student dead, 11 wounded in shooting

CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A student at Ohio's Youngstown State University was killed and 11 other people, including six YSU students, were wounded in a shooting at an off-campus residence that housed members of a black fraternity, officials said on Sunday.

The dead student was identified as Jamail E. Johnson, 25.

Police are in the process of identifying suspects, a YSU statement said. "Everybody is doing their investigation," Youngstown Police Lieutenant Franklin Palmer said.

The shooting occurred just after midnight. YSU spokesman Ron Cole said the private residence housed some members of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, a YSU sanctioned African-American fraternal organization.

YSU Police Chief John Gocala said there was no threat to the campus, according to the YSU statement.

"I want to express my deepest sympathies to the family of the student who died in this tragic act of violence, and to ask everyone to keep him and the other students in their thoughts and prayers," YSU President Cynthia E. Anderson said.

"It is a sad day for the YSU family."

In a statement released by YSU, Mayor Jay Williams said, "The Youngstown Police Department is actively pursuing leads in this case. I am fully confident that they will identify, apprehend and bring to justice the individuals who are responsible."

Omega Psi Phi was the first African-American fraternal organization to be founded at a historically black college -- Howard University in 1911.

(Reporting by Kim Palmer; Writing by Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Jerry Norton)