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Virginia State University Parents Demand Security Answers After Campus Shooting, the Naacp Joins the Nolan Wells Family Legal Team, and Hayden Panettiere’s Autopsy Comes Back With Narcan Found on Scene · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Virginia State University is facing growing questions about campus security
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  Speaker 1: after five people were shot outside residence halls just two
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  Speaker 1: days before the start of classes, and the NAACP is
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  Speaker 1: now joining the Nolan Wells family's legal team, adding new
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  Speaker 1: legal and investigative resources to the push for answers about
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  Speaker 1: how the eighteen year old died and new details in
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  Speaker 1: the sudden death of actress Hayden Pantier. Her autopsy is
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  Speaker 1: complete and newly released nine to one to one audio
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  Speaker 1: references a possible overdose. It's Tuesday, August eighteenth, from the
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  Speaker 1: Virginia State University is facing growing questions about campus security
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  Speaker 1: after five people were shot outside residence halls just two
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  Speaker 1: days for the start of classes. The shooting happened around
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  Speaker 1: one thirty Saturday morning on the campus of the HBCU
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  Speaker 1: just outside Richmond, Virginia. One of the five people shot
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  Speaker 1: is a VSU student. One person remains in critical condition.
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  Speaker 1: Police have arrested a nineteen year old who is not
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  Speaker 1: a student, but it's where they found him that's now
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  Speaker 1: raising questions about security the campus went into lockdown after
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  Speaker 1: the shooting. That lockdown was eventually lifted, but police say
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  Speaker 1: the suspect was still on campus, hiding inside a dorm
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  Speaker 1: room closet. He wasn't found until more than fourteen hours
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  Speaker 1: after the shooting. Students are now questioning how that was possible.
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  Speaker 1: Parents are also raising similar concerns. Some students and parents
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  Speaker 1: say they've been able to enter campus without anyone checking
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  Speaker 1: their ID, and Virginia State does not have security rules
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  Speaker 1: after hours. Visitors are supposed to have security identification or
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  Speaker 1: be accompanied by a student or staff member. Access to
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  Speaker 1: residence halls are also supposed to be restricted, and now
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  Speaker 1: families are calling for tighter security, more officers, and a
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  Speaker 1: town hall with university leaders. The VSU president says student
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  Speaker 1: safety remains one of the university's highest priorities. The school
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  Speaker 1: has not announced any major security changes. Please also say
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  Speaker 1: others fired weapons during the shooting and they're still working
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  Speaker 1: to identify them. Classes are now underway at Virginia State
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  Speaker 1: as students and parents push for answers about how this
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  Speaker 1: happened and what the university plans to do next, and
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  Speaker 1: the NAACP is now joining the legal team representing the
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  Speaker 1: family of Nolan Xavier Wells, the eighteen year old whose
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  Speaker 1: body was found on a Mississippi Barrier island two days
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  Speaker 1: after disappearing during a fourth of July trip. The organization
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  Speaker 1: announced Monday that its lawyers will work alongside civil rights
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  Speaker 1: attorney Ben Crump as Nolan's family continues pushing for answers
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  Speaker 1: about how he died. Leading the NAACP's legal effort is
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  Speaker 1: Kristin Klar, who previously ran the Civil Rights Division at
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  Speaker 1: the US Justice System. Clark says the organization will bring
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  Speaker 1: additional legal and investigative resources to the case and push
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  Speaker 1: for what she calls truth and transparency. Nolan disappeared July
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  Speaker 1: fourth after traveling with friends to Horn Island off the
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi Gulf Coast. His body was found two days later.
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  Speaker 1: An independent autopsy requested by the family could not determine
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  Speaker 1: his cause of manner or death. The official state autopsy
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  Speaker 1: has been completed, but those findings have not been released publicly.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities say the investigation remains active and no one has
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  Speaker 1: been charged in connection with Nolan's death. The Congressional Black
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  Speaker 1: Caucus has also asked the Justice Department and FBI for
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  Speaker 1: an independent federal review. So now Nolan's family has another
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  Speaker 1: major civil rights organization joining its push for answers as
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  Speaker 1: questions remain about exactly what happened to the eighteen year
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  Speaker 1: old on Horn Island, And finally, an autopsy has now
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  Speaker 1: been complete on actress Hayden Pantier, but there are still
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  Speaker 1: questions about what caused her sudden death. The thirty six
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  Speaker 1: year old was found unresponsive Sunday afternoon at a home
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  Speaker 1: in Greenville, South Carolina. First responders tried to revive her,
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  Speaker 1: but she was pronounced dead a short time later. The
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  Speaker 1: coroner says the autopsy found no visible injuries or trauma
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  Speaker 1: that contributed to her death. Her official cause of death
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  Speaker 1: and manner of death are still pending while investigators wait
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  Speaker 1: for additional testing, including toxicology, but there is a new
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  Speaker 1: detail from the scene. TMZ reports Narcan was found inside
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  Speaker 1: the apartment, along with an applicator on the mattress. Narcan
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  Speaker 1: is a medication used to reverse an overdose. Dispatch audio
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  Speaker 1: from that afternoon also referred to the call as a
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  Speaker 1: possible overdose, but at this point, authorities have not said
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  Speaker 1: that Pantier died from an overdose or even that the
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  Speaker 1: narcan found inside the home was used on her. Polise
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  Speaker 1: say they have no sign a foul play or suspicious circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: Pantier had publicly spoken in the past about struggles with
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  Speaker 1: alcohol and substance abuse, but investigators have not connected that
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  Speaker 1: history to her death so far. For now, exactly what
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  Speaker 1: cause Hayden Pantier's death remains undetermined. Investigators are waiting on
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  Speaker 1: those toxicology results before the coroner makes a final determination.
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