--- description: Two students were fatally shot during an altercation at Grambling State University and Louisiana police are searching for the shooter title: Shooter on the Run After Killing 2 Students at Grambling State University image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5d160c750a2d58f9/6988da5d196cf41d81041899/police-line-stock.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Louisiana](/tag/louisiana/) ## Louisiana Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Shooter on the Run After Killing 2 Students at Grambling State University by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 25, 2017 10:39 AM CUT  A blurred police car in the background behind yellow crime scene tape. A blurred police car in the background behind yellow crime scene tape.Getty Images/iStockphoto by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 25, 2017 10:39 AM CUT (GRAMBLING, La) — A sheriff’s spokesman says a student and his friend were fatally shot at Grambling State University after an altercation that began in a dorm room, and the shooter fled the scene. Lincoln Parish Sheriff’s spokesman Stephen Williams says detectives are at the scene of the double homicide, assisting campus police, after getting 911 calls starting at 12:04 a.m. Wednesday. “It was an altercation that started inside one of the dorm rooms and spilled out into the courtyard,” Williams said. “We’re interviewing witnesses.” Grambling State University Media Relations Director Will Sutton told news outlets that one of the victims was a Grambling senior, Earl Andrews, and the other was Monquiarius Caldwell, both 23 and from Farmerville, Louisiana. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4996490/grambling-state-university-shooting/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4996490/grambling-state-university-shooting/"},"headline":"Shooter on the Run After Killing 2 Students at Grambling State University","datePublished":"2017-10-25T10:39:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:59:31.479Z","description":"The fight started in a dorm and spilled out into the courtyard","url":"https://time.com/4996490/grambling-state-university-shooting/","keywords":["Louisiana","Crime","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5d160c750a2d58f9/6988da5d196cf41d81041899/police-line-stock.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5d160c750a2d58f9/6988da5d196cf41d81041899/police-line-stock.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"A police crime scene tape close-up","caption":"A police crime scene tape close-up","creditText":"Getty Images/iStockphoto","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/louisiana/","name":"Louisiana"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4996490/grambling-state-university-shooting/","name":"Shooter on the Run After Killing 2 Students at Grambling State University"}}]}] ```