By David Voreacos and Michael Allen, Record Staff Writers | Saturday, September 15, 1990
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Gunfire and violence erupted early Friday after a student party at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, injuring five people and prompting the suspension of evening social activities in the Student Union Building.
A festering rivalry between Hackensack and Teaneck residents who are not students sparked the fight, which broke out about 1:25 a.m. after 200 attended a party in the Student Union sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha, a black fraternity on campus, authorities said.
Police and students said two groups of outsiders who attended the party tossed trash cans and threw punches in front of the building. An unidentified gunman then fired about six shots from an automatic handgun, scattering the crowd and hitting the Student Union three times.
Witnesses said about two dozen people were involved in the fight.
No one was hit by gunfire, but Kendal Brown, 24, of Teaneck was hit on the head with a pipe. He was in serious condition Friday at Holy Name Hospital. Charles Daniels, 26, of Teaneck was in good condition with a stab wound to the chest.
Police had made no arrests by late Friday afternoon.
University officials suspended social activities in the Student Union, where many parties are held, and suspended Alpha Phi Alpha, pending a hearing next week to assess the group’s responsibility.
FDU also will study ways to tighten campus security, a spokeswoman said.
“It’s the outside community coming on campus,” said senior Jason Harris, president of 100 Black Men, an FDU student group. “This has been an ongoing problem, but last night it really got out of hand. “
Alexander McLucas Jr., a 19-year-old FDU student, suffered a bruised collarbone while fleeing the scene, and Ilyas Ali, 25, of Teaneck suffered a back laceration when someone attacked him with a beer bottle, police said. Both were treated at Holy Name and released.
Reginald Allen, a 36-year-old campus security guard from Hackensack, was cut on a leg with glass but refused medical treatment.
Three hours after the shooting, police confiscated a revolver from the car of Anthony Christopher Brown, an 18-year-old FDU student from Huntington Station, N.Y. No charges were filed Friday against Brown.
Caption: PHOTO – ED HILL / THE RECORD – Alexander McLucas Jr. of Newark was injured in the FDU brawl.
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