OT: Shooting at Purdue
Prayers, if so inclined. Sympathy if not.
It hopefully lends some perspective on the Damien Harris stuff. Something that seems so significant is, in fact, a miniscule detail.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/21/justice/purdue-shooting-report/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
January 21st, 2014 at 12:54 PM ^
that no one was hurt.
January 21st, 2014 at 1:09 PM ^
January 21st, 2014 at 1:19 PM ^
Play some video games or watch some TV and stay outta the way of anything. Thoughts and prayers are with you, your classmates, and the community.
January 21st, 2014 at 1:21 PM ^
I am a current Purdue student and the shooting took place in the Eletronical Engineering Building. Got the text to my cell phone around 12:10 reporting the shooting. Reports are that one is in custody and possibly looking for another. There has been many reports that a teaching assistant has been shot and killed. Please be praying for Purdue!!
January 21st, 2014 at 1:25 PM ^
January 21st, 2014 at 1:26 PM ^
Was on campus at NIU recruiting interns back in 2008 when that happened there. It's such a travesty. They were bringing victims into the building where I happened to be in to start giving them medical treatment. It was pure shock for all of us.
Like the OP said, it's things like this that make us realize how insignificant a decommitment is. Stay safe everyone at Purdue.
January 21st, 2014 at 1:43 PM ^
I've got family working in that building today. Prayers go out to everyone involved. From the sounds of it the victim and the suspect knew each other well, and it was an intentional targeting as opposed to random gunfire.
Again, prayers to anyone involved.
January 21st, 2014 at 1:49 PM ^
January 21st, 2014 at 1:55 PM ^
Recived the same text as well!
January 21st, 2014 at 1:54 PM ^
https://scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1/1016417_10152161624…
image of the guy with the gun. Why would you need that gun on a campus
January 21st, 2014 at 1:58 PM ^
No, that is a plain clothed officer that is doing a patrol with the automatic weapon they carry in there vehicles. As bad as it sounds, this incedent would be a lot more than one death with an weapon like that.
January 21st, 2014 at 2:12 PM ^
I'm not going to argue with you about whether that is a plainclothed officer or not, although I guess it makes sense.
From what I am hearing, the incident involved a student tageting a TA, rather than a gunman going on a rampage. Plain clothes officer certainly explains the tactical underbelly attachment and the custom stock on the gun.
January 21st, 2014 at 3:39 PM ^
January 21st, 2014 at 4:17 PM ^
What is a "High Gun"?
January 21st, 2014 at 4:35 PM ^
Clearly the picture would of been taken after the incident occured, if he is infact a plainclothed officer. As a criminal justice student wanting to become a police officer, I would perfer a high calibare AR15 assualt rifle over a glock. Espically if a shooting has just occured and a rumor of second suspect might be at large (according to police scanner). I find it hard to believe that the suspect is the one in the picture, with it clearly being far harder to conceal carry a big weapon like that. Details will eventually unfold in the next few days.
January 22nd, 2014 at 3:21 PM ^
Is not a "high-calibare" rifle.
January 22nd, 2014 at 4:02 PM ^
I did not realise that I had put "high-calibare", thank you lol.
January 21st, 2014 at 5:00 PM ^
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January 21st, 2014 at 2:06 PM ^
I used to have a lot of classes and work in a lab in the physics buidling which is right next to the EE buidling. I have a couple friends still at purdue working as post-docs and professors. They are safe. The EE building is still on lock down. The total lock down of the campus has been lifted. One suspect in custody, while one may still be at large.
January 21st, 2014 at 2:13 PM ^
Glad to hear that it appears no one was hurt.
January 21st, 2014 at 2:44 PM ^
In the news confrence on WLFI John Cox (Police Cheif of West Laffeytte) reported that there has been one death.
January 21st, 2014 at 3:03 PM ^
January 21st, 2014 at 2:48 PM ^
Terrible news.
I have family and many friends who are Purdue alum.
Pray for the victim(s) and their families; but pray harder for the monster(s) that caused them their pain.
January 21st, 2014 at 3:20 PM ^
Prayers are on the way.
January 21st, 2014 at 3:25 PM ^
My son just graduated from there. Two of his frat brothers were in the class and texted him it was gorier (sp?) than what will be reported. One teaching assistant targeted. I will spare the details. Awful.
January 21st, 2014 at 3:33 PM ^
January 21st, 2014 at 4:26 PM ^
But I'm not sure that one professor not knowing how to lock the doors to her lecture hall indicates that the entire university doesn't know how to deal with a terrible situation like this. For that matter, how does ANY university deal with a student who decides to go on a murderous rampage with a gun? Outside of armed guards and metal detectors 24/7 at every entrance to every campus building (impossible and preposterously expensive) how are you going to stop it?
January 21st, 2014 at 5:16 PM ^
January 21st, 2014 at 5:44 PM ^
Well that does seem to be an inappropriate response. At the least you would think professors would either know to lock kids down or get them out of the building.
January 21st, 2014 at 8:11 PM ^
It also may very well be that the only way to lock the doors is with a key, and if it's the kind of door that has a push bar on the inside to open, it probably takes an allen wrench to lock and unlock. Ideally, every professor would be given a key/wrench and instructions on how to lock doors, especially ones that aren't the usual configuration that the average person would know how to lock.
January 21st, 2014 at 8:19 PM ^
It also may very well be that the only way to lock the doors is with a key, and if it's the kind of door that has a push bar on the inside to open, it probably takes an allen wrench to lock and unlock and also has another mechanism that isn't obvious to the average person. Ideally, every professor would be given a key/wrench and instructions on how to lock doors, especially ones that aren't the usual configuration that the average person would know how to lock. And the most usual scenario that I've ever known, especially with large lecture halls with multiple doors is that the locking and unlocking is left to a staff member, whether it be janitorial, maintenance, security, or other rather than to professors.
January 21st, 2014 at 4:43 PM ^
January 22nd, 2014 at 5:45 AM ^
January 22nd, 2014 at 5:28 AM ^
January 22nd, 2014 at 1:58 PM ^
We're going to have to be forced into some hard choices here, and soon. This shit is ridiculous.
Edit: It now looks like a false alarm. Well hey...some good news for a change.