George, in response to your post, I found a report in Technician, N.C. State’s student paper, that lists the majors of the students suspected in the gang-related shooting. Ryan Alexander Barnes is “a sophomore in First Year College” (it’s been a long year) and Whitney Shanice Blakeney, who has been charged with “maintaining a dwelling for manufacture, sale and distribution of a controlled substance ? marijuana,” is “a sophomore in business management.”
Technician reports that the victim Grubbs was not affiliated with the university, although the N&O in your link says he is. He isn’t listed in the NCSU student directory online, for what it’s worth.
Something else I found: Grubbs and the other victim, Pittman, were in the news last December escaping a burning building ? while Pittman was four months pregnant.
