An unidentified Gettysburg College student accused of carving a racist slur into a teammate’s chest is no longer enrolled at the liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, the school said over the weekend.

“We can now report that the individual who carved a slur on another person is no longer enrolled at the college,” the private college said Sunday in a joint statement with the victim’s family, announcing its investigation into the campus incident, which occurred on Sept. 6 at a meeting of members of the men’s swim team.

The incident was first reported by student newspaper The Gettysburgian on Wednesday. A college spokesperson confirmed it and said the accused and the victim have been suspended from the swim team pending the outcome of the investigation.

The next day, college president Bob Iuliano condemned the racist incident in a letter to the campus community.

“There is no place on this campus for words or actions that demean, degrade or exclude a person based on their identity and history,” Iuliano wrote. In a statement published in the Gettysburgian on Friday, the victim’s family said the incident occurred at an informal meeting of members of a swim team on campus. The student, who is no longer enrolled, is said to have used a box cutter to carve the N-word into the victim’s chest.

The victim’s family said he was the only person of color at the gathering and the alleged perpetrator was a trusted friend of his. They used the word “caustic” to describe the violation and called it a “hate crime.”

The family, who said they wanted to keep the victim’s identity and their own secret, condemned the incident and said letters of complaint about discrimination, harassment and “lack of due process” had been sent to state and local NAACP organizations as well as the Pennsylvania Commission on Human Relations.

Neither these agencies nor spokespeople for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice immediately responded to requests for comment Monday evening.

The family said they are aware they have the opportunity to push for criminal prosecution, but prosecutors are free to initiate an investigation and possible prosecution regardless of third-party involvement.

It is not clear why the victim was suspended. The family said in their statement that the student was “dismissed” but not suspended from attending.

College spokesman Jamie Yates said the school was limited in what it could say until the investigation was complete, but noted that the family’s joint statement with the college on Sunday said both parties agreed to ongoing “discussions … about how to most constructively move forward.”

The Division III men’s swim team seems more accustomed to provincial headlines. For example, this year there were reports of how seven members were named to the All-Centennial Conference team or how four members, who qualified by having a 3.5 grade point average or higher, were named to the Division III Academic All-District team.

The college removed the team roster amid national attention because it feared for the safety of student-athletes who were suddenly in the national news, Yates said by email.

Iuliano, the college’s president, defended the team’s culture and leadership on Monday and said the captains should be commended for reporting the incident to coaches.

“The investigation into student conduct has confirmed that the incident is not a byproduct of an unhealthy culture on the sports team or a reflection of the team itself. Rather, we see the captains making their coaches aware of what it means to be a Gettysburgian,” he said in the message to the campus community.

Iuliano said he hoped the history-rich college – founded nearly three decades before the Civil War that made the town of Gettysburg famous by a man who denounced slavery as a national “sin” and owned slaves through marriage before freeing some when he moved north – could learn a lesson from this month’s events.

He said he had asked the college’s chief diversity officer to launch an investigation that would result in “concrete actions” to prevent such a thing from happening in the future.

“We know there are lessons to be learned – lessons that must take into account our shared history,” Iuliano wrote on Monday. “We know these lessons will not reveal themselves.”