News & Politics - Campus Lockdown After Student Shooting

welshgirlyUK · 09-21-2007, 01:48 PM

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Police say they have identified two students as persons of interest in a Delaware State University shooting, and are interviewing one of them.

Classes were cancelled and movement around the University restricted after two students were shot and wounded, one seriously, on the campus.

Police say they are still searching for the gunman.

The two victims, a male and a female, have been taken to hospital.

The male student is in a stable condition, and the female has serious, possibly life-threatening injuries.

The pair were apparently returning from a cafe when they were shot, around 1am, according to University police chief James Overton.

The male student was wounded in the ankle and refused to answer questions by police about the shootings, Mr Overton said, raising the likelihood that he knew his attacker.

Classes were cancelled for the day and those not on campus told to keep away.

"The university is implementing a plan to provide essential services to its residential population on campus," said a statement on the University's website.

Founded in 1891, Delaware has about 3,300 undergraduate students on a 400-acre residential campus about 100 miles northeast of Washington DC.

Administrators at Virginia Tech University were criticised for not reacting swiftly enough to lock down their campus in April, when student Seung-Hui Cho gunned down 32 people and then killed himself in the worst mass shooting in modern US history.

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I was suprised not to see this posted.

Does anyone else find it odd that the man shot refused to answer police questions?

Jacob1983 · 09-21-2007, 01:53 PM

I don't find it odd at all. The wounded man probably didn't want to be a rat. Or maybe the shooter threatened to kill the man if he revealed the identity of the shooter.

I wonder if the two people shot were a couple. What's the difference of being a suspect and a person of interest?

Bella Grint · 09-21-2007, 04:18 PM

Not again

**sunnykerr** · 09-22-2007, 11:58 AM

There is a difference between being a suspect and a person of interest, though it can be a question of degrees in some cases. A suspect is suspected of having an active part in the crime. When they say "a person of interest," it can just mean that the person may have seen something or been witness to events they may or may not understand to be part of the crime. Of course, that's where it gets slippery, because if they totally knew it was part of the crime, if they helped the person escape for instance... then it can become a thing where they become suspects.

I was glad to hear that the school went into lockdown, though. It seems the lessons of Virginia Tech were learned. That's good.


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