Suspect named in shooting of Michigan college baseball player at Muskingum University

Five people from the Delaware, Ohio area, including a 7-month-old, died Tuesday in a crash in Pennsylvania, according to the Fayette County, Pennsylvania coroner.

A suspect has been identified by Olivet College as the alleged shooter who shot a college baseball player after a game on Friday evening at Muskingum University.

Franklin Grayson, a 26-year-old alumnus of Olivet College, was taken into custody on the same night after the incident in which he reportedly shot the player multiple times on the Muskingum University campus in New Concord. He has been charged with one count of attempted murder with a firearm specification and one count of felonious assault with a firearm specification, according to the Muskingum County Prosecutor's Office.

The Division III college baseball player from Michigan's Olivet College is recovering.

The shooting happened around 7 p.m. Friday, when the visiting player returned to the dugout to get a personal item he had left behind on the North Turf, just north of Mose Morehead Field, on the campus of the private school of 1,500 students in New Concord, about 16 miles northeast of Zanesville.

An ambulance rushed the player, whose name and age authorities did not release, to a local hospital, where he was treated for injures that were not life-threatening and later released.

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As of Saturday morning, he was with his parents, Olivet College said in a statement. The rest of the team is safe, spent the night in their hotel and were returning to Michigan on Saturday, the school said.

No other faculty, staff members or students from either college were injured.

Muskingum University issued a shelter-in-place order at 7:23 p.m. It was lifted at 9:15 p.m.

Based on witness descriptions, Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz said, police arrested a suspect, now identified as Grayson, at 7:45 p.m. The investigation remained ongoing as of Saturday morning.

Muskingum University spokesperson Jennifer Shaver said the school has canceled all weekend athletic events. It was due to play Olivet in baseball again Sunday.

Olivet, according to the school's website, won Friday's game against Muskingum, 8-6. Olivet's Monday game against Penn State-Behrend, from Erie, Pennsylvania, also was canceled.

Dispatch reporter Taijuan Moorman contributed to this story.

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