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Officials: Reports of a shot fired on Kent State Campus near Bowman Hall
Newsnet5 Cleveland ^ | 4/2/14 | Megan Shaw

Posted on 04/02/2014 6:31:52 PM PDT by IChing

KENT, Ohio - According to school officials, reports of a shot fired near Bowman Hall on the Kent State main campus.

Kent police are assisting Kent State police officers on the scene.

According to Executive Director of University Media Relations Eric Mansfield, the suspect is a black male wearing basketball shorts, carrying a silver handgun.

Officials are asking everyone to avoid the area. Seek shelter until further notice.

This FlashAlert, emergency text messages, was sent to all students: "Kent Main Campus: Report of a shot fired near Bowman Hall. Officers in area. Stay away from area. If in area, Shelter in place until further notice."

NewsChannel5 has a crew headed to the scene.

Check back for more details as they become available.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: activeshooter; crime; ericmansfield; gunviolence; kentstate; ohio
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To: AuH2ORepublican

Well the anti’s just took a giant hit against their Demonrat party with the YEE corruption/gun running from Muslims 2 weeks ago...

then all this? Yeah probably nothing to it...just a coincidence :/


21 posted on 04/02/2014 6:48:37 PM PDT by gwgn02
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To: G Larry

Good point.


22 posted on 04/02/2014 6:48:38 PM PDT by IChing
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To: IChing

This is so easy to answer. If you pull a gun on innocent people in my state , I am shooting you dead.


23 posted on 04/02/2014 6:48:45 PM PDT by SADMILLIE
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To: AuH2ORepublican

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We’re finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We’re finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.


24 posted on 04/02/2014 6:48:50 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: IChing

Has Governor Rhodes called out the National Guard?


25 posted on 04/02/2014 6:50:53 PM PDT by LaybackLenny (Sarah Palin - Last Man Standing (Ironic, ain't it?))
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To: BenLurkin
Hopefully it's not a high-powered sniper pistol.


26 posted on 04/02/2014 6:50:54 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Maybe its a Kent State re-enactment?


27 posted on 04/02/2014 6:54:49 PM PDT by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah, but was the grip pearl or ivory? Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl- handled pistol.


28 posted on 04/02/2014 6:54:57 PM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

first of 4 blood moons april 15 2014


29 posted on 04/02/2014 6:59:59 PM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru HnodredscottIM all things are possible.)
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To: IChing
One shooter, and Obama's Fund Raising,

We're finally on our own.

I can hear the drums a'beatin'

Four dead in O-Hi-O.

30 posted on 04/02/2014 7:01:00 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Nothing is more savage and brutal than justifiably angry Americans. DonÂ’t believe me? Ask the Germa)
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To: 2111USMC

I was at OSU at that time...crazy time..very chaotic...gosh were we naive about the world and politics. Great music though.

The very sickest ones of that time are now high up in the administration...me, I just work a job so I can help redistribute the wealth. ha.


31 posted on 04/02/2014 7:08:30 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

I was a very young mother at the time, and remember the shock to my sense of reality, by not only Kent State, but all the other horrible acts committed by my peers.

And, you are right that these evil self-centered fools decided to infiltrate and take over all of our institutions (even the girl scouts, for heaven’s sake).

My husband was teaching at SUNY-Buffalo in the early 70s, and we were ostracized by the younger fellow professors because we didn’t smoke pot, and didn’t want to take part in demonstrations and civil disobedience.

Sometimes I wonder why we stood by and watched the mayhem in silence. My guess is that we just couldn’t believe it, and assumed that it was a temporary aberration.

We guessed wrong.


32 posted on 04/02/2014 7:21:03 PM PDT by jacquej ("It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.")
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To: jacquej

I remember you being somewhat worried about Dad making it home from work unscathed by the violence taking place on campus when the protesters took over the administration buildings, etc.


33 posted on 04/02/2014 7:42:07 PM PDT by IChing
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To: IChing

My read: common everyday thug just carrying his piece, either accidental shot or threat to 1 of his co-druggies.


34 posted on 04/02/2014 7:44:49 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Geez what is it about April.
Yeah, Apr 15, tax filings due, Shitler's birthday Apr20, earth day, Oh and Apr 8, the 40th anniversary of Hank Aaron's 715th home run breaking Ruth's record, who knows if that has anything to do with the craziness?
35 posted on 04/02/2014 7:55:54 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Now we have to start hearing about how we should have our guns taken away again. It never ends.


36 posted on 04/02/2014 8:01:23 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: IChing

I’ll be curious to find out if this turns out to be accurate. IIRC, they locked down a campus after some idiot students called 911 to report hearing shots, next to a active contsruction site. Turns out it was a loud bang from the workers.


37 posted on 04/02/2014 8:03:28 PM PDT by matt04
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To: All

steven stills is going to write another song now.


38 posted on 04/02/2014 8:03:32 PM PDT by willywill
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To: PghBaldy

Hispanic by the name of Mohammad Abdullah Hassan?


39 posted on 04/02/2014 8:05:57 PM PDT by bergmeid
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To: MuttTheHoople

40 posted on 04/02/2014 8:16:38 PM PDT by Gasshog (DemoKKKrats: Leaders of the Free Sh!t World)
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