One dead, 7 wounded in shooting at a party in Georgia, USA

One person was killed and seven others were injured in a shooting at a party near Fort Valley State University in the US state of Georgia.

The Georgia State Bureau of Investigation identified the dead man as Tyler French, 27, a Byron resident.

He was not a university student, and all seven injured are in stable condition.

"Campus police have received reports of a shooting and that university students who attended the off-campus party sustained non-life-threatening injuries," said university spokesman Michael Clark McCurry.

The university administration closed the campus temporarily after the shooting, and reopened it after the campus police decided that "there is no threat to the students."

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