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12 injured, 11 with gunshot wounds, in shooting near Florida A&M stadium
Twelve people, including six children as young as 11, were injured in a shooting near Florida A&M University's Bragg Memorial Stadium in Tallahassee on Saturday night during homecoming weekend.[2, 7, 11+1] Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell said 11 of the injured suffered gunshot wounds.[1, 3, 7] Police said a fight involving "two or three individuals" broke out shortly before 8 p.m. and shots were fired.[9, 12]
Three victims were seriously injured, including one in critical condition, while eight were stable.[7] Revell said no arrests had been made.[11, 17] Fox News reported five victims have been released from the hospital and six remain hospitalized, one in critical condition.[10]
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Leans left: The New York Times (−0.70), The Guardian (−0.70).
Right: The Washington Times (+1.27), Washington Examiner (+1.34), Fox News (+1.52), IJR (+1.52), Townhall (+2.01), Breitbart (+2.03), The Western Journal (+2.13), One America News Network (+2.69).
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On Saturday night, Oct. 24, 2026, shortly before 8 p.m., a shooting occurred near the intersection of Perry and Manatee streets, just outside Florida A&M University’s Bragg Memorial Stadium in Tallahassee during homecoming weekend. Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell said a fight involving two or three people preceded the gunfire. Police described it as an isolated incident. Twelve people were injured, six adults and six juveniles; the youngest was 11. Eleven had gunshot wounds. One person, a grandmother of a victim, was hurt while fleeing. Initially, one victim was in critical condition, three in serious condition and eight stable. By Sunday morning, police said five victims had been released and six remained hospitalized, one still critical. No arrests had been announced. One injured person was believed to be a FAMU student. The university said it was aware of an incident near campus and that police were investigating.[2, 3, 10, 12]
Background
The shooting took place hours after Florida A&M’s homecoming football game, as crowds gathered near the stadium. FAMU is a historically Black university. Police and the university said the campus itself remained safe and asked people to avoid the immediate area while investigators worked. Lt. Gov. Jay Collins posted that children among the injured made the event more heartbreaking.[2, 3, 10, 12]
How the coverage differs
Left-leaning outlets such as The Guardian and The New York Times led with the number of gunshot wounds and that six of the injured were minors, noting the event followed the homecoming game and that police called it an isolated altercation. Center outlets including ABC News, NBC News, Newsweek, UPI and Yahoo News similarly reported the 12 injured (11 by gunfire), six children as young as 11, victim conditions, the fight beforehand, no arrests, and later hospital-release figures. Right-leaning outlets such as Fox News, the New York Post, Breitbart, IJR, OANN, The Washington Times, The Western Journal, Townhall and the Washington Examiner also reported the same core facts from police. Fox News highlighted the Sunday hospital update (five released, one remaining critical). The New York Post used “bloody altercation” and “homecoming party” language and quoted a student on chaos after the game. Some right-leaning headlines used “mass shooting.” Coverage across sides generally relied on the same police news conference and did not widely dispute the sequence of a fight then shots.[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17]
What's still unclear
Police had not identified or arrested those who fired the shots. The exact cause of the fight among two or three people was not known. Full identities of victims beyond ages, conditions and that one was a student and one a fleeing grandmother were not released. Whether more people were involved beyond the described altercation remained under investigation.[2, 3, 10, 12]
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