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The 19-year-old suspect in Saturday\u2019s mass shooting at Virginia State University was found cowering in a campus closet more than 14 hours after police said he shot and wounded five people.<\/p>\n

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Camron Harris, who is not a student at the school, was nabbed while hiding inside the Seward Hall dorm around 4 p.m. Saturday by Chesterfield County police, Fox59 News reported.<\/p>\n

Harris is now being held without bail at the county jail on four counts of malicious wounding and four counts of using a firearm in the commission of a felony, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n

The accused gunman, who lives in Henrico about 30 miles from the university, allegedly opened fire at the campus shortly before 1:30 a.m., wounding a 20-year-old male student and four other people between the ages of 17 to 23 who were not enrolled at the school.<\/p>\n

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The victims were hospitalized after the shooting, with one treated and released.<\/p>\n

Police have not revealed a possible motive for the gunplay.<\/p>\n

The university was temporarily placed on lockdown after the shooting. <\/p>\n

The incident came amid a spate of mass shootings across the US over the weekend, including at an outdoor concert in Kentucky that left four people wounded.<\/p>\n

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Two children, ages 4 and 14, were among those shot in the Kentucky carnage.<\/p>\n

Police said the shooting took place around 6:45 p.m. in Charles Young Park.<\/p>\n

Also, Saturday evening in Chicago, four people were wounded, two critically, in a drive-by shooting around 7:15 on the city\u2019s South Side, WLS reported.<\/p>\n

Another person was killed and four wounded in Hartford, Conn., early Sunday, too, with police called to the SoulBaila nightclub on reports of bloodshed around 1:40 a.m.<\/p>\n

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