Posted on 05/07/2009 6:00:03 PM PDT by greatdefender
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – Wesleyan University students were told to stay in their dorms and the city's only synagogue closed Thursday as police warned that the man wanted in the shooting death of a woman at a bookstore may be bent on killing other students and Jews.
Apparently applying the lessons of Virginia Tech, police and administrators locked down the 3,000-student campus and stepped up patrols as authorities hunted for the killer.
Johanna Justin-Jinich, a 21-year-old student, was shot several times Wednesday inside a bookstore cafe just off campus by a gunman wearing a wig. Two years ago, she complained to police in New York that the suspect, 29-year-old Stephen P. Morgan, had stalked and threatened her.
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If the victim has a facebook page under the same name, she was very pretty. Just google her name and you’ll see what I mean.
What a terrible waste of a young life.
Kind of a strange case. The victim has known the shooter for a few years apparently and was even threatened by him a few years back.
Her restraining order must have expired. Maybe she forgot to renew it.
It was keeping her safe for a while.
So young, idealistic, and tragically confused. It's all so unfortunate.
It took about 36 hours for this story to get any mention at all on Free Republic. Now I see there has been one post with six comments.
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