Five people wounded in shooting outside residence hall at Baltimore university

Police kept the campus on lockdown for hours and provided little information about their investigation

Baltimore police respond to a shooting at Morgan State University (Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun via AP)

Five people were wounded in a shooting outside a residence hall at Morgan State University in Baltimore, according to authorities, who urged students to take shelter on the campus of the historically black college.

The Baltimore Police Department initially said officers were on the scene for an “active shooter situation” at around 9.30pm local time.