Update:
http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/1872782.html
Local Link to OU Suicide Bombing
Authorities have identified a University of Oklahoma student with Colorado ties as the person who killed himself in an explosion near a packed football stadium.
F-B-I Special Agent Salvador Hernandez says the body is believed to be that of 21-year-old Joel Henry Hinrichs III. A student telephone book lists Hinrichs with a permanent address in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Hinrichs, a 2002 Wasson High School graduate, was killed when an explosive device detonated around eight p-m last night near Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, where more than 8400 people were watching the Oklahoma Sooners play the Kansas State in a Big 12 Conference game.
There were no other reports of injuries and OU President David Boren says spectators were never in danger.
Hinrich's father, Joel Henry Hinrichs Junior, says he and his son exchanged several e-mails in the last month and nothing seemed out the ordinary.
so someone has spoken to the father I see - "nothing out of the ordinary".
"...the body is believed to be that of 21-year-old Joel Henry Hinrichs III"
That was a big bomb than. Don't mean to sound morbid just a fact.
So were 8400 people in the stadium or 84,000? I'm seeing both numbers reported in this thread.
Meanwhile, what information is available to President Boren that gives him such confidence that this was a suicide and nothing more?
I think some explanations publicly clarifying these statements and providing some justification for them is a reasonable thing to expect.
As it is, the way this is being handled in and by the press stinks to high heaven.
If they don't have anything to say, that's fine, but this business of making unsupported assertions about the crime scene is woefully unprofessional, and I hope those involved -- particularly President Boren, in whose integrity my confidence is rapidly diminishing -- will start giving the public a little credit, for crying out loud.
I ask Mr. Boren and those managing the news in this case to please not pee on our legs and tell us it's raining.
That's insulting, and we deserve better.