UT president has cancelled all classes for the rest of the day. Campus remains in lock down and students are to remain in their buildings. Classrooms are locked.
Posted on 09/28/2010 6:51:15 AM PDT by bgill
University of Texas at Austin just issued an alert of an armed suspect at the Perry-Casteneda Library. Alert went out to students' cell phones. KXAN reporter told me that no shots have been fired but Austin PD is setting up a command post and UT police are hunting for suspect. Also said students are being told to go back to their dorms. IMO, it's more dangerous to have students out walking to their dorms instead of staying inside buildings but whatever...
Unbelievably bad live reporting!! Sounds like a lab from a junior high school media class.
No, he was in the library near the law school.
Apparently he fired a few shots from what is described as an AK-47, and then shot himself. He was wearing a suit and also was masked.
There may be a second suspect, maybe not, not confirmed.
Armored cars on campus. Students are to shelter in place, lock exterior and interior doors. Of course none of them are armed and are lambs for the slaughter, if anyone is trying to kill them.
http://www.utexas.edu/news/2010/09/28/emergency_alert/
AUSTIN, Texas — Updated at 9:37 a.m.:
The person involved in this morning's shooting on campus has been confirmed dead on the sixth floor of the Perry-Castañeda Library from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
No other injuries have been reported.
September 28, 2010 at 9:55 am
The university is closed.
A suspected shooter in PCL library is dead. Law enforcement are searching for a second suspect. If you are off campus, STAY AWAY. If you are on campus, lock doors, do not leave your building.
SHOULD be: A suspected shooter in PCL library is dead. Law enforcement are searching for a second suspect. If you are off campus, STAY AWAY. If you are on campus, lock doors, chamber a round in your personal firearm, stay alert.
It is, per federal and state law.
Idiot lawmakers.
In Texas it's called a CHL, Concealed Handgun license. I have one.
My daughter, a grad student at U Texas, sent me a text saying she was not on campus this AM and not to worry. Couldn't figure out what the hell she was talking about. Then the other daughter's husband called and told us what was going on. Wondered it my wife was going near campus today. She's not, but she is going to Austin, to visit granddaughter's kinder teacher with an offer of assistance. (Wife is chair of education department at small college north of Dallas.). Other daughter works somewhat south of the UT campus.
The law school is on the east side of the campus near the football stadium.
The Perry-Castenada library is blocks away on the south edge of the campus situated between the business buildings (on its north) and the Jester Center, a huge dormitory complex (on its east).
More likely there is no second shooter. There may have been a defender, with an illegally possesed defensive weapon.
When the tower shooter did his thing, there were dozens of students who armed themselves, often from their vehicles, and shot back. I heard one of them speak at an anti-gun control rally at the State Capital, might have been '94 since the "Assault Weapons" ban was passed that year under the Impeached One. He was shooting from a different library. Initially the librarian, who had no problem with his M1 Carbine, didn't want to let him out on the balcony, because that was "not allowed". A police officer came by, took a look, said "You've got a good spot, I'll find my own".
Times have changed, and not for the better.
And Allen Crum, a retired Air Force tailgunner (who had actually never fired a shot), went up in the tower with the police. He had an accidental discharge of the .30 rifle he had borrowed (I was told it was a CMP Garand, but I’m not sure), which distracted the sniper so police could get the drop on him and take him down.
Thanks for the correction. Even though I have two daughters, one who went to the law school, another who is a grad student now, I’m really not very familiar with the campus.
From your description, it’s actually closer to where the grad student has her office (She’s also an instructor/coordinator for a low level undergrad course).
But she was not on campus this morning. Thank God.
NEAL BOORTZ INTERVIEWING MAN ON PHONE NOW LIVE IN BUILDING .................
Some profs have turned off lights and some are carrying on class. Buildings are still in lock down. Police are still searching buildings for 2nd suspect.
Now they are saying that many shots were fired BEFORE the masked shooter went into the library.
Channel 8, Time Warner cable out of Austin, is now saying classed are canceled for the day.
Also students are being let out of buildings by police, one building at a time.
What is the person interviewed saying about the situation?
I wasn’t sure just where daughter’s office is. Wife knows though, and it’s, to the library. Sanchez building.
We are so relieved she was not on campus this morning.
UT president has cancelled all classes for the rest of the day. Campus remains in lock down and students are to remain in their buildings. Classrooms are locked.
LMAO!!! You owe me a new keyboard...:-)
It is indeed good that she was away from her office.
PCL is the library, SZB is where her office is.
In TX, you can carry concealed on campus, but not in the building. You can carry in the parking lot, sidewalks, & parks unless the school posts the state required signage at the entrance of each parking lot prohibiting concealed carry. The TX Attorney General recently made a ruling that stated that “safe school” zones did not include parking lots, parks, or sidewalks unless the proper signs are posted at the entrace to each of those locations. I don’t know if UT has that signage though.
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