Posted on 06/14/2004 3:58:03 AM PDT by texasguitarslim
Edited on 06/14/2004 4:02:23 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
DUBLIN, Va. --Peter Odighizuwa spends most of his time in a cramped jail cell, alone with the delusions that fed his deadly shooting spree at a fledgling law school.
In his first extended interview, Odighizuwa told The Associated Press he thinks often of the 2002 rampage, when he killed the school's dean, a professor and a student and wounded three other students, though he has trouble explaining why he did it.
"I really don't know what happened," Odighizuwa said Tuesday. "I feel like I'm God sometimes, and I was running demons out of the school. It was like an exorcism."
Understanding Odighizuwa, who has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, remains an important issue for his victims and the Appalachian School of Law. The 46-year-old Nigerian native is now the focus of lawsuits that could force his former school to pay $23 million.
The lawsuits, filed by the family of slain student Angela Dales and by the wounded students, Rebecca Brown, Stacey Beans and Madeline Short, claim school officials knew Odighizuwa had a history of outbursts, and should have realized he was a threat.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Mr. Elder gave fairly detailed information about how the shooter was stopped on January 16, 2002. A student named Tracy Bridges was in a classroom across from where the first professor was shot. Bridges happened to be an off-duty cop. Bridges went to his car to get his gun then used his weapon and verbal commands to stop Odighizuwa. Simply put, one armed student stopped another student who was on a killing spree.
Elder's column gave some interesting statistics about how the media covered this incident. It's no surprise that very few news stories actually mentioned the fact that Odighizuwa was stopped by another student with a gun.
Now, let's go back to the recent article. If, as the lawsuit against the school contends, "Odighizuwa was allowed to re-enroll after flunking out because he was one of the school's few black students and administrators were desperate to show diversity," then doesn't this demonstrate that guns really don't kill people, but political correctness does?
A future candidate for the US Courts?
I'm sorry - but your prejudice is showing.
As I understand it, he was a foreign student, legitimately in the US on a student visa.
Just WHERE does it say he was an 'illegal alien'?
If you ever want to lose that barrel, you'll have to get some intellectual honesty yourself.
Sadim
The article calls him a "Nigerian native" meaning he is
grounded in, lives in, and is a citizen of .... Nigeria.
"Murderer tries to turn his life around"
"The 46-year-old Nigerian native ....."
The article calls him a "Nigerian native" meaning he is
grounded in, lives in, and is a citizen of .... Nigeria.
Here's some intellecual honesty. Every Nigerian I've met in the US has been a liar and a thief. And the one in this article is a mass murderer.
Awwww... Poor baby...
You understand? How? Do you work for the Boston Globe?
Well, he is an alien (not from the US) and he committed an illegal act (killing people), so he most definitely meets the qualifications for an illegal alien.
One would hope so, since it's barely been two years since the murders.
However, after reading the entire article, it's clear he thinks the victims deserved it-- either for being "mean to him" or "menacing" or "FBI and CIA agents".
So boston.com has made a vain plea for our sympathy, with that wretched title.
Actually you're both wrong, he was a naturalized citizen since the late eighties.
Which means he could have been a beneficiary of Reagan's amnesty, but there's no way to know at this point...
As sad as this situation is, I must admit that I enjoy the irony of a law school being on the receiving end of a bunch of personal injury suits under the theory that it should have known this guy was a nut case and protected its students from him.
I've got to admit ...... future lawyers shooting lawyers..... "How... awful!"......(yawn, sip soda, click on next story.... smile)
You understand? How? Do you work for the Boston Globe?
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