Posted on 10/02/2005 3:46:04 PM PDT by WestTexasWend
A University of Oklahoma student died in an explosion Saturday night near a stadium packed with 84,000 people. Although the investigation is not complete, the medical examiner believes Joel Henry Hinrichs III, 21, of Colorado Springs, Colo., perished in the blast, said Salvador Hernandez, special agent in charge of the FBI in Oklahoma .
Hinrichs died about 8 p.m. when an explosive detonated near the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.
According to the universitys Web site, Hinrichs was a junior in the college of engineering.
There were no reports of any other injuries and university officials have said the spectators at the game were in no danger at any time.
Initially, police believed there were two explosives -- the one that detonated and another that didn't -- but a later search found no other device.
University President David Boren said a police bomb squad did detonate an item found at the blast site to ensure that it was not an explosive.
Hmm, an engineer...
I guess I won't go there, but engineers fill the ranks of extremist organizations.
With a name like 'Joel Henry Hinrichs III', he hadda be an Islamonazi!
I've become jaded and cynical where the media are involved. I think more time needs to pass before there's a positive answer to whether or not he was just a mixed up college boy or something else. Of all the ways to kill oneself, his solution was to say the least...odd.
Beth Holloway thing is VERY annoying . News has been like that forever though , pretty girl , murder , sex ..The public likes that crap and the media is out to sell papers or air time. Sad but thats the way it is ..Worse these days to be sure.
The 3rd? Good grief, there is at least two other generations of them to worry about.
I just used what I say online from a number of sources and saw that there was very little real info and a lot of " i saw what I "though " was ..." So I reserved judgement .Thats all I did in this situation.
Some kid recently killed himself and video taped it just to freak out his parents and friends when he had enough . I dont doubt this sick kid plotted going out with a bang . Sick world we have here.
Glad this wasn't apparently the Islamist thing this time.
That article said "Joel Hinrichs, 21-year-old engineering student, was killed while sitting on a bench." Is that the same as suicide? Could he just have been a victim? Just makes you wonder if he had picked up a backpack or something. Or was a bomb under his seat?
Thank you for checking: I wish the MSM did the same.
Yes, I too immediately assumed he was Muslim/Muslim-convert.
Jesse P. got banned for that post. I'd wait before taking his word as gospel.
I've heard of where an ex would phone their estranged spouse and blow their brains out while on the line with them, telling them...'you made me do this.' How sick is that...
JP was obviously an apologist. Even the first thread had elevated this knothead to an elite status. Many of us were condemned for doubting the POS.
Won't happen....
Hmmmmmn.
True: he was banned for putting it up. So should the post itself (nbr 41) be kept in this thread?
But on another thread he was saying how "freepers see the truth" about muslims. He was a rabblerouser, IMO.
Were the cells shut down or was there just an overload of calls when people heard the blast ?
Wow the other thread on this subject is getting scary.
It wouldn't take too much to overload the towers at a football game that large.
The AM's zotted the nitwit. Their decision if final, and normally not subject to sideline review. IMHO
I wonder how they can be so sure. He might have been going to blow himself up inside, and it exploded prematurely. That doesn't mean that he was a Muslim. Just a tormented soul that took his own life.
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