One victim has died and another has been rushed into surgery after a shooting at a parking lot at Worcester State University in Massachusetts around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, authorities said. Neither the victims nor the suspected assailants are students at the university, said a spokesperson for the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office.

Worcester is about 40 miles west of Boston.

Officials at the university issued a shelter-in-place order shortly after the shooting; it was lifted just before 9:30 a.m. There is still a large police presence on campus.

"Students heard gunshots, and then an ambulance came and took the two individuals who were shot away," said Maureen Stokes, a communications official for the university. "At that point, police secured the area and determined at that time that there was no immediate threat to campus."

Massachusetts State Police said the two people who were injured were taken to UMass Medical Center. Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. confirmed that one of the two victims had died. He said that one person was taken into custody shortly after the shooting and that a firearm was recovered. That person is charged only with trespassing and firearms offenses.

Early said that the shooting does not appear to have been a random act and that it is believed all parties were known to one another.

The shooting occurred in a parking lot in the upper campus of the university, which is between the student dormitories Wasylean Hall and Sheehan Hall, Stokes said. The district attorney’s office urges anyone with information, photos or video around the dormitories to share it with Massachusetts State Police, university police and Worcester police.

Stokes said some students have already submitted videos to police after they heard gunfire from the dorms.