Suspicious Package On ECU Campus

WNCT Eyewitness News, Greenville, NC ^ | 10/14/05 | Jennifer Coates

[freema]

Suspicious Package On ECU Campus Oct 14, 2005 Jennifer Coates WNCT-TV9

Police were called to campus around 11:30 this afternoon, near the art building. ECU Police tell Nine on Your Side a construction worker left a bookbag full of copper pipes near a construction site. The Cherry Point Bomb Squad was called in. They detonated the six pipes. Four buildings were evacuated during the scare.

[freema]

http://www.witntv.com/home/headlines/1785521.html

While nearby.... Funeral services were held Thursday (10/13/05) for 26-year-old Yahya Albraidi. He's the man shot and killed during the armed robbery of the Kash and Karry convenience store in Grifton, Monday night.

Family and friends gathered in Rocky Mount for an Islamic prayer service, and burial of their loved one. A spokesman for the family says the family mourns their loss, and calls the killing senseless.

Albraidi's wife and children currently live in Yemen, and were unable to attend the burial.

http://www.wnct.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WNCT/MGArticle/NCT_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1128767540254 Suspects in Custody Oct 14, 2005 Loni Blandford WNCT - TV9 Printer friendly format E-mail this story More Local News

Kinston Police have three suspects in custody, all charged in connection with the murder of a Grifton Kash and Karry clerk. 20 - year-old David Green, 22 - year - old James Hill and 20 - year -old Jeffrey Hill were arrested last night. One of the three used to work at the store. Pitt County detectives say all three face murder charges and armed robbery with a weapon, but more charges are likely. We'll have much more on this developing story.

[freema]

Thought you might be interested in this. I'm not making any calls on it, just putting it up...

[upchuck]

Police were called to campus around 11:30 this afternoon

11:30 in the afternoon? Huh?

NC ping

[I'm ALL Right!]

Nothing to see here...

[freema]

Thank you for that ping.

[Oorang]

Family and friends gathered in Rocky Mount for an Islamic prayer service

Rocky Mount???? There's muslims in Rocky Mount???? Never thought I see the day when that happened.

[LibertyRocks]

Thank you very much for the ping freema. I'll look for more reports on this one. It's rather vague and as someone pointed out the writer made a little mistake on the time. (o: Will post here if I find some.

[LibertyRocks]

Found a report with a little more in-depth information:

http://www.witntv.com/home/headlines/1791626.html
Suspicious Backpack At ECU

Buildings were evacuated and the bomb squad called in after a suspicious backpack was discovered at East Carolina University. The unattended backpack was found behind the Jenkins building on the Greenville campus, prompting that building, the Irving building and the old cafeteria building to be evacuated. A K-9 unit detected something in the bag which could be used to make explosives. So, the Cherry Point Marine Corps Bomb Squad detonated it with a water cannon. Turns out it contained sections of copper pipe. The owner of the backpack was being held for questioning.

I'm glad they have the apparent owner of the bag in custody. Seeing as the dog detected something in the bag makes it interesting. I'll readily admit I'm unfamiliar with what the dogs are trained to detect though.

Finding these sorts of things on campus seems rather unsettling in light of the OU Bombing. Perhaps this kind of thing happens more often than we're aware of?

[freema]

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~pluralsm/affiliates/ackland/ar-razzaq.html

[freema]

You're welcome. May very well be nothing to see here...but it's certainly strange, in light of OU and Georgia Tech, isn't it.

I've been trying to find info on the Greenville PD bomb squad, no luck, because I found it interesting that Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point was utilized.

This was allegedly a construction worker who left a backpack with 6 pipes. Weird.

[LibertyRocks]

I'm glad you caught that about the Marine Corps bomb squad being used. I don't know much about Greenville so maybe they don't have a local PD bomb squad? I'll admit that what you've pointed out about the squad used makes it even more interesting - in my eyes, and with my limited knowledge.

I've set up a few google alerts, so I'll try to stay on top of this story, too... Absolutely nothing in the media about this other than these 2 TV stations - at least not yet. We'll see if any papers pick it up with the morning's editions. It's not being covered by the AP at this point though...

[Strategerist]

And some poor guy getting blown away in a convenience store robbery has something do with your post, how?

[freema]

Sorry. The store at which the Yemeni man was killed is reported as being in Grifton, which it is. But it actually has an Ayden address.

A bomb exploded in a public place in the US by the Marine Corps/Department of the Navy a couple days after a dead Yemeni is reported in the town Ayden (Aden) somehow made me think of some poor guy getting dumped overboard a boat.

Like I said, perhaps nothing to see, perhaps it's all coincidental.

[freema]

Sorry, again. Ayden, Grifton, and Greenville are all in Pitt County. (Rocky Mount is just a bit northwest.)

[laz]

Gee, does a single day go by anymore without a suspicious package being found on a campus somewhere?

[Calpernia]

ECU?

Elizabeth City University?

[Calpernia]

East Carolina University

Oh Ok!

[lndrvr1972]

When did things become so damn complicated?

[Calpernia]

It is easier to still up propaganda and controvercy that way.

Then you discredit it as never happening.