DOVER, Del. (AP) — Two students were shot and wounded, one seriously, at Delaware State University early Friday, and the campus was locked down as police searched for a gunman, officials said.

The students were apparently returning from a cafe when they were shot, according to a federal law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.

The male student was wounded in the ankle and refused to answer questions by police about the shootings, the official said, raising the likelihood that he knew his attacker.

Classes were canceled for the day and students were being kept inside.

“They’ve been directed to stay in their dorms,” university spokesman Carlos Holmes said. “We don’t know where the shooter’s at.”

Gates at the university’s main entrance prevented people from driving onto campus.

The two students were shot before 1 a.m. on the Campus Mall, between the Memorial Hall gymnasium and Richard S. Grossley Hall, an administrative building.

Holmes said the female student appeared to have suffered serious wounds. “They could be potentially life-threatening,” he said. The male student’s wounds were not as serious and he was hospitalized in stable condition, Holmes said.

The woman was taken to Christiana Hospital in Newark, N.J., with a traumatic wound to the abdomen, said John Wilson, the deputy chief of Kent County Emergency Services. The man was taken to Kent General Hospital in Dover. Officials at both hospitals referred questions to the university.

Authorities, with the campus police in charge of the investigation, hoped to get more information once the victims were able to talk. They don’t yet know about the possible motive.

This is Serious especially in the wake of the Virginia Tech Shootings a few months back. I was in college not to long ago and  you always felt safe when you were on campus. If a University loses the battle of campus safety the literally lose students. No one wants to be on a campus were you have to keep your head on a swivel for armed gunmen.