Attempted murder charge filed in Alabama A&M campus shooting

A man previously charged in connection with a shooting on the campus of Alabama A&M University in Huntsville is now facing an additional attempted murder charge for the same incident.

Juvuan Maurice Richards Jr., 20, of Mobile, was arrested March 18 and charged with discharging a gun in an occupied building.

Court documents say Richards fired a Glock 17 Gen5 handgun at the Knight Living and Learning Complex on March 18, while officers and students were in the area.

Alabama A&M Police Chief Montrez Payton said on the day of the shooting that a campus police officer was on the fifth floor of the Knight Complex residence hall conducting a routine patrol around 1:50 p.m., when the officer heard shots fired below him.

As the officer responded to see where the shots were coming from, he made contact with a person in the southwest stairwell of the residence hall.

“Multiple shots were exchanged in that stairwell,” Payton told AL.com.

“An individual was hit multiple times.”

The shooting victim, another student, was taken to Huntsville Hospital with undisclosed injuries.

Records show that Richards was also charged with firing two shots at a university police officer.

The officer, who was not publicly identified, was not injured.

The attempted murder charge was filed in September.

In October, Richards’ bond on the second charge was reduced to $25,000, according to court documents. It was $50,000 for the initial charge.