2 Maryland football players charged in pellet gun shootings

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) University of Maryland Police say they have charged two football players with shooting three students with a pellet gun. The department

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) University of Maryland Police say they have charged two football players with shooting three students with a pellet gun.

The department said in a news release that Darryl Turner II of Glenarden and Lorenzo Harrison III of Clinton, who are both 19, were charged with three counts each of assault and reckless endangerment.

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The football team announced on Saturday that Turner, a receiver, and Harrison, a running back, were suspended indefinitely for violating the school's student-athlete code of conduct. At that time, the university did not detail reasons for the suspensions.

Campus police say on Nov. 6, three students reported by struck by pellets from a gun.

It could not be immediately determined who Turner and Harrison's lawyers are.