Posted on 08/27/2015 3:59:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A suspect was apprehended just before 11:30 a.m. on Thursday on the Starkville campus of Mississippi State University after the school's student association reported an active shooter situation. During the incident, the organization advised students to "please get to a safe location and do not move."
The suspect has not been identified and the motive is not known. No one was injured in the incident, as the suspect apparently did not fire any shots.
The suspect was first seen at Carpenter Hall, which houses the school's mechanical engineering department. The suspect was later seen at Lee Hall, a building that houses student affairs administrative offices, telecommunications offices, a copying center and classrooms. "Lee Hall and Carpenter are on the central green space of the campus, about one building is in between them," a spokesman for the university said in a phone interview, adding it was relatively easy to move between the two halls....
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What am I missing?
Active but a procrastinator.
Prolly same thing as the shooter, a gun.
Want to bet it was a label machine or some other device?
Proactive shooter spotter...
This is my rifle. This is my gun.
Active shooter? If you are shooting are you not already active?
Nope you missed nothing and got it in one! Active Shooter=Shots being fired. At the most suspicious person with a gun.
No shots were fired & he did not have a gun when arrested.
Just another day in an open carry state.
Entire campus in sheer panic because some asian kid says he feels like he wants to kill himself.
Probably had an assault pool cue.
“Entire campus in sheer panic because some asian kid says he feels like he wants to kill himself.”
Progressives are highly emotional and basically helpless in a situation that requires direct action.
A virtual terrorist?
Vietnamese.
“No shots were fired & he did not have a gun when arrested.”
Sounds suspiciously like a swatting.
yeah, i could never be that dangerous to the world...too lazy lol.
Never understood stalkers either. If he/she doesn’t want to be with you, you get the remote and all the popcorn :)
“Lee Hall and Carpenter are on the central green space of the campus, about one building is in between them,” ===
Too much open space for shooters to move around. Better put up barricades between all buildings.
And around all news crews, and ... you know ...
What am I missing?
The local Walmart was all out of shells again.
(CNN) — There was no active shooter at the Mississippi State campus and reports of shots being heard are the result of “panic and clutter,” Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Chris Turnipseed told CNN on Thursday. A person of interest related to the initial emergency call was taken into custody, he said.
Warren Strain, a spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, said Nguyen was on the phone with an Army recruiter in the Jackson area when the recruiter became concerned that Nguyen was considering suicide and directed a co-worker to call MSU. The Mississippi Highway Patrol was also called and told the university that Nguyen was threatening to shoot others, according to a transcript of the call released by MSU.
“MSU to all units, we have a possible active shooter in Carpenter Hall,” the university police dispatcher then broadcast, according to the transcript. “This is not a test.”
The university sent text and Internet alerts to students, faculty and staff, sending them scrambling to lock themselves into offices and classrooms. Nguyen was arrested a short time later in front of McCool Hall on the Drill Field, the quadrangle at the heart of campus.
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