Upper Merion Grad Killed in Seton Hall Shooting

Police are still searching for the gunman

A 19-year-old Seton Hall student killed during an off campus party was a graduate of a high school in Montgomery County.

Jessica Moore graduated last year from Upper Merion High School in King of Prussia. The teen transferred there her junior year from Tennessee, according to authorities.

Police say Moore and four others were shot at a frat house party Friday not far from the school. Police say the gunman tried to crash the party after he was turned away.

Moore was a Psychology major and honors student from Disputanta, Va.

Two of the injured are 19-year-old women who go to Seton Hall, and one is a 25-year-old man who attends the New Jersey Institute of Technology. The other is a 20-year-old man from New York who is not a student.

The Friday night party, which lasted into early Saturday, was primarily for students at Seton Hall, a well-regarded Roman Catholic university with a gated campus in South Orange, about 15 miles from New York City. But the party was in a neighborhood of East Orange where violence has been a problem, according to witnesses.


 

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