‘I Am Concerned,’ Towson University Student Says After Campus Lockdown

TOWSON, Md. — Some Towson University students were connected borderline Tuesday, a time aft the field was placed connected lockdown portion constabulary searched for a antheral suspected of assaulting an officer.

Yet different students told WJZ the constabulary enactment and shelter-in-place bid issued by the assemblage Monday evening didn’t marque them consciousness uneasy due to the fact that the antheral astatine the halfway of the hunt is not a pupil there.

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Baltimore County Police connected Tuesday identified the fishy arsenic 19-year-old Zaron Elzey, who faces a database of charges including carjacking, assault, robbery and theft.

The charges stem from a transgression spree that began astir 5 p.m. Monday erstwhile a BMW was seen driving erratically on Stevenson Lane. Police said things escalated erstwhile the BMW was progressive successful a hit-and-run clang connected Osler Drive.

A Baltimore County constabulary serviceman called to the country of the clang was assaulted by the BMW’s driver, who fled connected ft afterward, according to police.

It was astir that clip the assemblage sent a wide email to students and faculty, recommending that they enactment wrong and debar the West Village area.

“Everyone panicked,” freshman Chinedu Chukwu recalled Tuesday. “We had to enactment wrong the hallway and that benignant of shocked me.”

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While students and unit sheltered successful place, constabulary learned of a carjacking of a Land Rover astatine a adjacent hospital. The fishy was taken into custody successful Baltimore a abbreviated clip later.

Even though nary students were hurt, Monday’s incidental combined with a Sept. 4 field shooting that near 3 radical injured has immoderate disquieted astir field security.

“One semester it happened twice,” freshman Ranah Khalil told WJZ. “One is simply a shooting and 1 is simply a constabulary assault. And, arsenic a student, I americium acrophobic for my safety.”

Added elder Jun Ong: “I’m reasoning astir getting a extortion keychain with a taser and stuff.”

Following his arrest, Elzey was taken to the Baltimore County Jail wherever he’s being held without bond.

A hunt of online tribunal records recovered it isn’t the 19-year-old’s archetypal run-in with the law. His transgression grounds included an attempted execution complaint stemming from past December.

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Court records amusement Elzey has a bail reappraisal proceeding successful Monday’s lawsuit scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.

Rachael Cardin