It was an ambush. Bodies were strewn across a bloody floor, a witness said, young men and women trampled over one another to escape the gunfire, some of them even dived out of windows.
When it was all over shortly after midnight yesterday, two men and three women lay wounded, one mortally, in a rented house on South Clinton Street in East Orange, about a mile from Seton Hall University.
What had started as an off-campus party attended mostly by students ended with the death of Seton Hall sophomore Jessica Moore, 19, of Disputant, Va.
Authorities did not identify the other victims, but they said in addition to Moore, two are Seton Hall students and one went to the New Jersey Institute of Technology. The fifth is from New York City.
Before the attack, an uninvited guest crashed the party, said East Orange Police Director Jose Cordero. When the man was confronted, a fight broke out. The man left but came back a short time later with a gun in his hand.
"The whole crowd was like a stampede. Girls were being trampled on ... it was pure terror," said a man who attended the party. He identified himself as a May graduate of Seton Hall who lives in Newark but did not want to give his name for fear of his safety.
When the shooting was over, Moore lay on the floor, the man said. But for the trickling blood, she appeared to be asleep.
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