NEW UPDATE: A spokesman for Morgan State University says the victim was not a student, and was not connected to the school.
UPDATE: Police have identified the victim as Santos Villanueva, of the 7000 block of Surrey Drive in Northwest Baltimore. Still no word on whether he's connected to the university.
A 25-year-old man was chased down and fatally shot Wednesday night near a Morgan State University dorm, according to city police. The victim's name has not yet been released, and we're checking to see if there's any connection to the school.
Police said the shooting occurred about 9:10 p.m. when the victim was confronted by at least one gunman in the rear of the 4300 block of Loch Raven Boulevard, near the Northwood Shopping Center. Police said at least one assailant chased the victim to the 4100 block of Loch Raven Boulevard, and shot him in the street. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Morgan State's campus is on the eastern side of the Northwood Shopping Center, but there is an upperclassman apartment on Loch Raven -- Marble Hall Gardens -- where the shooting occurred.
The university's web site promotes the complex as providing "a taste of what life may be like for students who graduate and need to enter the 'real world' instead of moving off-campus."
