A college student from Indiana was killed by a stray bullet in New York City on Saturday, police said.
Twenty-year-old Ethan Williams, of Indianapolis, was sitting on a stoop in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn with a group of friends when several shots were fired at about 2:30 a.m., police said. Williams was shot in the chest. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Williams’ father told WABC-TVthat his son was a sophomore in the film media program Indiana University and was a member of the Mayor’s Youth Council of Indianapolis.
Police have made no arrests.
Williams was a sophomore pre-media student, the dean of the IU media school wrote in an email to adjunct faculty on Sunday.
“It is with great sadness that I must inform you of the death of one of our students, Ethan Williams,” James Shanahan wrote. “I know you all will join me as we at The Media School extend our deepest condolences to Ethan’s family and friends.”
Shanahan wrote that Williams attended Franklin Central High School in Indianapolis and transferred to IU this fall from Taylor University in Upland.
Counseling and support services are available to students at Counseling and Psychological Services, (812) 855-5711, he wrote.
Bob Zaltsberg and George Hale contributed to this report.