Shooting at UT Campus

[Delhommey]

Details very sporadic...

Possible hostage situation.

[dimbee]

That sucks. Fuggen hillbillies and their guns

[Delhommey]

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2010/09/28/police_on_scene_of_shooting_on.html

I forgot UT means something different over there.

[dimbee]

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2010/09/28/police_on_scene_of_shooting_on.html

I forgot UT means something different over there.

I don't follow. Texans are fuggen hillbillies... you referring to Tennessee, the home state of down right good people?

[Delhommey]

Looks like it's ending as well as could be. The shooter just took him/herself out.

[cookinwithgas]

He was just exersizing his Second Amendment rights, but with terrible aim

[Delhommey]

Tuesday's incident serves as a live test of the emergency response systems all universities have developed in the decades since, a trend that has accelerated in the wake of the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre.

The speed and effectiveness of administrative response to violence resurfaced as a major issue in higher education after the Virginia Tech shootings. Student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people in April 2007 and then himself, making it the deadliest college shooting attack in the nation's history.

In Tuesday's incident, the shooter is dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. The UT campus was reported to be locked down. Officials said it appeared no one else was injured by the gunman, who was said by witnesses to be carrying an automatic weapon.

"The shooter is dead on the sixth floor of Perry-Castaneda Library, said Don Hale, a university spokesman, as quoted in the Austin newspaper. "No identification. Apparently took his own life."

Police told the paper they were concerned of a possible second suspect based on witness reports that raised that prospect.

Witnesses reportedly described eight to 10 shots fired, "in short bursts," the account said, by a gunman wearing a black ski mask.

From the article:

"[broadcaster] KVUE talked to UT student Andrew McWaters who said he saw the shooter near Dobie Mall and heard four gunshots followed by two more. He said the gunman was wearing a black ski mask, smiling and waving the gun."

University officials sent an alert at 8:23 a.m., using text message, loudspeakers, sirens and an online posting.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/college-inc/2010/09/gunman_shoots_self_at_universi.html

Apparently had an AK 47.

Glad the fugtard just took himself out.