Two New York University business students were killed while on vacation in Puerto Rico over the weekend, school officials said.
The two students were on vacation in Puerto Rico with a group to celebrate a birthday before finals when things went awry, a school spokesperson said.They were bystanders “caught in an altercation between two unrelated groups” when they were killed early Saturday morning, NYU spokesperson John Beckman said in a statement.Puerto Rico police said the shooting took place in front of a business on Loiza Street in San Juan.
“The University has been in touch with the remaining group members to offer them support and aid; none of the others were injured,” Beckman said in a statement. “NYU has also reached out to the families of the slain students to provide whatever assistance we can and to express the sympathies of the University community.”