Student from Newport Beach killed at party close to University of Arizona

TUCSON, Ariz. — A 20-year-old Newport Beach pupil on the University of Arizona pupil was fatally shot at an off-campus home party over the weekend, authorities stated.

Officers discovered Erin Jones shot exterior the home about 1:40 a.m. Sunday, police stated. She was taken to a hospital, the place she died.

Three different folks — a teenage woman, a person and a lady — have been handled at a hospital early Sunday for accidents that weren’t believed to be life-threatening, Tucson police stated in a information launch.

University President Robert Robbins stated Jones was a sophomore from Newport Beach.

“Our deepest sympathies exit to Erin’s household in California and throughout the nation, her associates, and her classmates in Tucson and Newport Beach, who’re absorbing the heartbreaking information as we speak,” Robbins stated in a press release Sunday.

Investigators from the murder unit are attempting to find out what led to the taking pictures; a number of attainable witnesses left the scene earlier than officers arrived, authorities stated.