11 injured in mass shooting near FAMU stadium during homecoming

Hear this story Gunfire tore through a homecoming crowd outside Florida A&M University’s football stadium Oct. 24 at night, wounding 11 people, six of them children, in one of Tallahassee's worst mass shootings .

The youngest of the victims was 11 years old and one is a FAMU student, police said. A twelfth person, the grandmother of one of the victims, was injured while fleeing. By the morning of Sunday, Oct. 25, five had been released from the hospital and six remained, one of them in critical condition, according to the Tallahassee Police Department. Officials have not released their names.

"It is especially heartbreaking to know that children are among those injured," Tallahassee police chief Lawrence Revell said at a news conference shortly after midnight.