11:44 AM - Four shot, U of AZ College of Nursing, Tucson [title updated] -greenspun.com : LUSENET : Current News - Homefront Preparations : One Thread |
First reports say two instructors and lone gunman dead.
-- Anonymous, October 28, 2002
gunman dead? You mean, dare I say it, someone shot him?
-- Anonymous, October 28, 2002
student pissed that teacher wouldn't let him take test because he was late, according to witness...
-- Anonymous, October 28, 2002
He shot hisself. Seems he got there 10 mins late for his mid-term and when the prof told him he couldn't take it, he shot him/her. (From a student who was in class.) Saying two dead which includes gunman.
-- Anonymous, October 28, 2002
sheesh! kids these days!
-- Anonymous, October 28, 2002
4 Killed in Gunfire at U. of ArizonaOct 28, 2:26 PM (ET) By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A gunman opened fire in a class at the University of Arizona nursing school Monday, police said. Four people were killed, including the attacker.
The suspect apparently committed suicide, Police Chief Richard Mirada said. He said he couldn't immediately provide details on how the others died.
The relationship between the gunman and the victims was not known. Police refused to identify the victims, though a university spokeswoman said they included two female professors.
Bomb squad members were called in after a backpack or package was found underneath the suspect's body, police said. [Student? Book bag? Coincidence?]
The suspect had earlier threatened to blow up the building in Tucson, though it was unclear when the threat was made, Mirada said. A bomb-sniffing dog reacted to the suspect's car in a nearby parking lot.
Police officers were going room to room at the school north of the university's main campus.
The college and nearby buildings were evacuated.
Au Niger, a 29-year-old graduate student, said she and her husband were standing outside the building waiting for a shuttle bus when a woman came out of the building with a cell phone, trying to dial and screaming that there was a man with a gun in the building. Police were at the scene within seconds.
"A group of people were crying and running desperately to get out of the building. They were crying, tripping over one another, falling down," Niger said.
Niger's husband Vices Sephardi, 27, estimated they saw 50 to 60 people scramble to get out of the building, before police swarmed in and shooed them away.
Police escorted groups of students, faculty and administrators in shuttle buses to the Alumni Building, where counselors were being made available.
Dana Weir, a spokeswoman for the alumni foundation, said students and faculty looked shaken, and people in her office were just trying to make them comfortable.
University President Peter Likens called the shooting an isolated incident. He said there were no immediate plans to change security procedures at the 34,000-student school.
"I don't now believe there's any reason to imply a deficiency of security either in that building or on this campus," he said.
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-- Anonymous, October 28, 2002
I read that the shooter was a 40-year-old. Must've had some pretty heavy baggage. Glad he didn't graduate!
-- Anonymous, October 28, 2002