Delaware State University has expelled Loyer D. Braden, the freshman who is charged with having shot two of his classmates on September 21. A university spokesman told the Wilmington News Journal that Mr. Loyer had violated the university’s “zero tolerance” rule prohibiting guns on its campus.

Under the terms of Delaware State’s judicial policies, a student discovered with a gun on the campus is automatically expelled, said the spokesman, Carlos Holmes. Prosecutors have charged Mr. Braden, 18, with one count each of first-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and reckless endangering.

“At the bare minimum, even if he’s found not guilty of that other stuff, he admitted to shooting a firearm in the air,” Mr. Holmes said. But he added that, technically, Mr. Braden still has a week to request a hearing by the university’s judicial-affairs office. “He’s got a right to due process if he chooses to avail himself of that process,” Mr. Holmes said.

The university has been praised for its quick response to the shootings (The Chronicle, September 24). —Lawrence Biemiller