An Aliquippa man shot early Sunday morning multiple times during a late-night party at an apartment complex about a mile from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania campus was reported in critical condition at a Pittsburgh hospital, state police at Indiana said.

The 19-year-old victim, who was not identified, is expected to survive his wounds from the shooting in the area of the 300 block of Medlar Drive in The Verge I apartment complex in White Township, police said. The victim was flown by medical helicopter to UPMC Presbyterian hospital after receiving first aid from bystanders as he laid on the parking lot and from Citizens Ambulance Service emergency personnel, police said.

Thirteen 9mm casings and an unloaded Taurus .380 caliber pistol were recovered from the scene when police responded to reports at 12:15 a.m. of multiple gunshots being fired in the apartment complex. More than 200 people were seen in the area and multiple people and vehicles were fleeing the scene when police said they arrived.

A nearby vehicle was found to have been hit by at least two rounds during the shooting, police said.

Troopers are continuing to work to obtain a description of the alleged shooter after conducting numerous interviews in an attempt to identify a suspect or suspects.

Michelle Fryling, a spokeswoman for Indiana University, said they do not have any information on whether the victim was a student at IUP.

Anyone who may have witnessed this incident or may have information is asked to contact the Troop A, Indiana Station at 724-357-1960.

One resident of the 300 block of the complex, David Davenport of Butler, said he heard shots being fired and immediately called the police. Davenport, who is studying criminology and hopes to become a police officer, said he saw at least 50 people milling around the parking lot near where the shooting occurred by the time police arrive.

“It’s just alarming ‘cause it’s just a scary thing to witness or be around,” Jack Skowronski, a junior from Braddock Hills, said of the shooting close to his apartment, where he was with friends when the gunshots started.

Skowronski said he was confused when he first came out of his apartment to see the shooting scene, where people were lined up on both sides of the road through that section of the apartment complex.

Another IUP student, Connor Kieffer of White Oak, said he thought someone was setting off fireworks when he heard what turned out to be gunfire.

Kieffer, a junior, said he saw a lot of people milling around the parking lot, none of them social distancing or wearing masks.

Several students at the apartment complex said they called home to tell their mothers that they were not hurt in the shooting.

IUP students were reminded last month by Tom Segar, vice president for student affairs, to continue to wear masks and practice social distancing off campus.

“We cannot put our students and our community at risk, and if the cases of coronavirus escalate in the Indiana community and in Indiana County, we may be forced to change how IUP continues this semester,” Segar stated on the university’s website.

State guidelines prohibit outdoor gatherings of 250 or more people and people must wear a covering if they can not be socially distant from others, Segar noted.

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