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Shots Fired at University of Texas Campus; Gunman
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Shots Fired at University of Texas Campus; Gunman Dead
Mara Gay
(Sept. 28) -- A gunman killed himself after opening fire today in a library at the University of Texas in Austin today, police say.
The campus remains on lock down, as police search for a possible second shooter.
A man walked into the Perry Castaneda Library this morning with an automatic weapon and fired multiple shots before turning the gun on himself, Helena Wright of the Austin Police Department told AOL News. Perry Castaneda is the university's main library.
The shooter is dead, Wright said. No other injuries have been reported.
UT spokesman Don Hale told the Austin American-Statesman the university sent emergency text messages to students and faculty warning them to stay away from the library and remain indoors. He did not immediately return a call for comment today.
Randall White, an adjunct law professor at the university, said he saw the suspected gunman outside the library. "He was running down the streets firing random shots," Wilhite told CNN. "At first I didn't think it was gun shots." Wilhite said the man was 6'2, white and wore a black ski mask and a dark tie. "I didn't think it was real until I saw bullets strike the ground," he said.
Kevin Olsen, a graduate student, told the paper he heard bursts of gunfire and said students were walking around campus looking "kind of in awe."
The name of the suspected gunman has not been released.
In 1966 the campus was the site of a deadly shooting spree when Charles Whitman, a student, climbed the university's iconic Texas Tower and opened fire, killing 14 people and wounding more than thirty more.
http://www.aolnews.com/crime/article/shots-fired-at-university-of-texas-at-austin-campus-gunman-dead/19651642?icid=main
Mara Gay
(Sept. 28) -- A gunman killed himself after opening fire today in a library at the University of Texas in Austin today, police say.
The campus remains on lock down, as police search for a possible second shooter.
A man walked into the Perry Castaneda Library this morning with an automatic weapon and fired multiple shots before turning the gun on himself, Helena Wright of the Austin Police Department told AOL News. Perry Castaneda is the university's main library.
The shooter is dead, Wright said. No other injuries have been reported.
UT spokesman Don Hale told the Austin American-Statesman the university sent emergency text messages to students and faculty warning them to stay away from the library and remain indoors. He did not immediately return a call for comment today.
Randall White, an adjunct law professor at the university, said he saw the suspected gunman outside the library. "He was running down the streets firing random shots," Wilhite told CNN. "At first I didn't think it was gun shots." Wilhite said the man was 6'2, white and wore a black ski mask and a dark tie. "I didn't think it was real until I saw bullets strike the ground," he said.
Kevin Olsen, a graduate student, told the paper he heard bursts of gunfire and said students were walking around campus looking "kind of in awe."
The name of the suspected gunman has not been released.
In 1966 the campus was the site of a deadly shooting spree when Charles Whitman, a student, climbed the university's iconic Texas Tower and opened fire, killing 14 people and wounding more than thirty more.
http://www.aolnews.com/crime/article/shots-fired-at-university-of-texas-at-austin-campus-gunman-dead/19651642?icid=main
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If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
Hope everything turns out ok for everyone else involved.
My wife speculated early on that a good Texan with a concealed handgun took out the shooter, but I guess that wasn't the case!
The wife was most likely correct, but even Bill O'reilly would not touch a story like that unless Al Sharpton or Lamont Hill(?) approved it. [:D][:D][:D]