Yet Another Mass Shooting Has Left One Dead and Three Injured at Northern Arizona University

A fight that took place around 1 AM Friday morning outside of a Greek-affiliated dorm on the Northern Arizona University campus turned deadly, leaving three injured and one dead, according to the Arizona Republic. An 18-year-old freshman named Steven Jones is in custody as the suspected shooter.

No information has been released about those who were shot, except for the fact that they were male and the deceased was also a freshman. It hasn't been confirmed if they were part of the Delta Chi fraternity, although representatives from the organization told the Washington Post that some of their members were "involved."

The shooter cooperated with police and the school was not on put on lockdown. The administration is directing family members of students to an emergency hotline and has set up a "Family Assistance Center," according to a statement.

This is just the latest in what seems to be a never-ending series of mass shootings on American soil. According to the crowd-sourced Mass Shooting Tracker, which counts the number of incidents during which three or more people were shot, there have been 298 such shootings in 2015—and this is the 299th. The shooting comes on the same day that President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit the families of those killed in an October 1 shooting at a community college in Oregon, after which Obama said Americans had become "numb" to this sort of tragedy.

Senate Democrats are currently pushing for gun control reforms that would make it more difficult for people to pass the background checks necessary to obtain firearms. And former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who survived an assassination attempt in 2011, plans to launch an initiative aimed at reducing domestic gun violence in the coming days.

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