Kathianne
02-14-2008, 07:55 PM
My daughter is at NIU. I heard on the radio coming home that there had been a shooting there. For the first time ever I was glad to find out she had pneumonia and couldn't go to classes today.
The good news is, she got a text message on her cell phone and an email while she was hearing the emergency vehicles converging on campus. She found out that they got there within about 2 minutes of the first call. Something was learned from VT shootings.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080215/ap_on_re_us/niu_shooting
Gunman opens fire at N. Illinois U. hall
10 minutes ago
A man dressed in black opened fire with a shotgun and two handguns from a stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday, injuring as many as 18 people, four critically, before he killed himself, the school's president said.
Witnesses in the geology class said "someone dressed in black came out from behind a screen in front of the classroom and opened fire with a shotgun," according to school President John Peters.
Peters said he couldn't confirm any fatalities other than the gunman.
University Police Chief Donald Grady said the gunman was not a student at the school. "It appears he may have been a student somewhere else," he said, adding that police had no apparent motive.
The university had issued a statement on its Web site about an hour after the 3 p.m. shooting that "the immediate danger has passed. The gunman is no longer a threat."
Kishwaukee Community Hospital spokeswoman Theresa Komitas told WLS-TV in Chicago it received 17 victims all with wounds from the shooting or flying debris, including three with serious injuries. One victim was airlifted to another hospital.
George Gaynor, a senior geography student, who was in Cole Hall when the shooting happened, told the student newspaper the Northern Star that the shooter was "a skinny white guy with a stocking cap on."
He described the scene immediately following the incident as terrifying and chaotic....
The good news is, she got a text message on her cell phone and an email while she was hearing the emergency vehicles converging on campus. She found out that they got there within about 2 minutes of the first call. Something was learned from VT shootings.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080215/ap_on_re_us/niu_shooting
Gunman opens fire at N. Illinois U. hall
10 minutes ago
A man dressed in black opened fire with a shotgun and two handguns from a stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday, injuring as many as 18 people, four critically, before he killed himself, the school's president said.
Witnesses in the geology class said "someone dressed in black came out from behind a screen in front of the classroom and opened fire with a shotgun," according to school President John Peters.
Peters said he couldn't confirm any fatalities other than the gunman.
University Police Chief Donald Grady said the gunman was not a student at the school. "It appears he may have been a student somewhere else," he said, adding that police had no apparent motive.
The university had issued a statement on its Web site about an hour after the 3 p.m. shooting that "the immediate danger has passed. The gunman is no longer a threat."
Kishwaukee Community Hospital spokeswoman Theresa Komitas told WLS-TV in Chicago it received 17 victims all with wounds from the shooting or flying debris, including three with serious injuries. One victim was airlifted to another hospital.
George Gaynor, a senior geography student, who was in Cole Hall when the shooting happened, told the student newspaper the Northern Star that the shooter was "a skinny white guy with a stocking cap on."
He described the scene immediately following the incident as terrifying and chaotic....