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Man opens fire with machine gun at university; two injured
The Associated Press ^ | 5/9/03 5:10 PM | By M.R. KROPKO

Posted on 05/09/2003 2:59:11 PM PDT by demlosers

CLEVELAND (AP) -- A man opened fire with a machine gun Friday at the business school at Case Western Reserve University. At least two people were reported injured.

Witnesses said the gunman was firing indiscriminantly.

School spokeswoman Marcie Hersh said the lone gunman was still in the Peter B. Lewis Building, which had been locked down. One person had been shot outside and was taken to a hospital. The other wounded person remained inside the building, she said.

LeKisha Spencer, 28, who works in a first-floor cafeteria said, she heard a bang and a saw a man walking inside the building toward the front.

"He had a machine gun, book bag, camouflage shirt, military green hat, white pants and a bookbag," she said. "I didn't see his face.

"He was just walking, aiming his guns and firing.

"I just went to the phone and dialed 911. I heard another bang."

She ran from the building.

"When I ran out the door, I still heard shots."

Squad cars surrounded the block, and officers had guns trained on the building, said William Day, a student at the Cleveland Institute of Music who was passing by.

Bonnie Copes, an administrative assistant, said she heard several gunshots beginning around 4 p.m.

Copes, 50, was locked in a department office inside the building and unable to leave. She continued to hear gunshots.

"Rounds and rounds and rounds," she said.

The $62 million Peter B. Lewis Building opened in the fall and was designed by Frank Gehry, the internationally renowned architect who also created the titanium-covered Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain.

Case Western is at University Circle, a park-like setting of cultural, medical and educational institutions on the eastern edge of downtown. The school has 9,500 students.

The Lewis building is about five stories high. Instead of walls on the south side, it has a curving roof, made of 20,000 stainless-steel shingles, that seemingly tumbles to the ground.

Lewis, an art collector and the billionaire chairman of Progressive Insurance, gave Case $37 million toward construction of the building, which opened in the fall.


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To: Mr. Mojo
They're paid by the TV networks, who all get the exclusive TV movie rights to their individual wackos. It's part of the Hollywood - Government conspiracy to control the people and the ratings.

If guns are outlawed, only Hollywood will have guns!

101 posted on 05/09/2003 11:04:06 PM PDT by CWOJackson (One nice thing about libertarians...they all tend to be paranoids.)
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To: Travis McGee
this event is just in time for million mom march mothersday Sunday
102 posted on 05/10/2003 12:43:01 AM PDT by drZ
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To: Gunslingr3
Precisely! I used to think it was a Democrat in the White House that caused these inciedents, now I realize that there seems to be an increase when anti-gun legislation is due to come up for a vote. Sure seems that way, doesn't it?
103 posted on 05/10/2003 12:47:22 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe
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To: SW6906
< tin foil hat > Another sleeper activated to go bezerk with a gun, just in time to be used as fodder for the reauthorization of the Assault Weapon (sic) ban..... < \tin foil hat >

Yeah, all the high school age sleepers from the Columbine era should be in college now...

104 posted on 05/10/2003 12:49:16 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe
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To: FreedomCalls
I predict someone will die, impaled by an icicle, in the next few years.

No problem the Campus police will just make ice against the law. That will solve the problem for sure. Of course anybody with snow on their shoes will have to be jailed, but hey, that is the price of freedom, right?

106 posted on 05/10/2003 2:14:26 AM PDT by American in Israel (Right beats wrong)
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To: MediaMole
Loved it when the Fox folks explained that it was not tornado damage but the way the building was designed.
107 posted on 05/10/2003 3:45:54 AM PDT by AmericanVictory
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To: mabelkitty
my thoughts, exactly.
108 posted on 05/10/2003 11:42:42 AM PDT by demosthenes the elder (If *I* can afford $5/month to support FR: SO CAN YOU)
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To: SW6906
oh, so I am NOT the only person who has this nagging and seemingly quite irrational suspicion that flamboyant gun-related crimes are awfully conveniently timed for the Leftist Agenda.
109 posted on 05/10/2003 11:45:40 AM PDT by demosthenes the elder (If *I* can afford $5/month to support FR: SO CAN YOU)
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To: finnman69
WTFIT?!?
It makes my head hurt just looking at it.
I think I would go stark bonkers if I had to spend more than 5 seconds inside it.
110 posted on 05/10/2003 11:47:17 AM PDT by demosthenes the elder (If *I* can afford $5/month to support FR: SO CAN YOU)
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To: All


CNN
Suspect seized in university shooting
MSNBC - 5 hours ago
An emergency crew brings a woman out of the management school Friday night on the campus of Case Western Reserve University.
Gunman kills one at Case Western Troy Daily News
Suspect shot in university shootings United Press International
WKMG - Miami Herald - San Francisco Chronicle - ABC News - and 565 related »

111 posted on 05/10/2003 11:49:14 AM PDT by backhoe
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To: marktwain
well put.
112 posted on 05/10/2003 11:52:10 AM PDT by demosthenes the elder (If *I* can afford $5/month to support FR: SO CAN YOU)
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To: JMack
that seems an interesting avenue of research.
hrmn... I think we need to get all of the folks who have commented on the "tinfoilhat" timing comment to get together and think about this issue.
There IS something here.
113 posted on 05/10/2003 12:04:06 PM PDT by demosthenes the elder (If *I* can afford $5/month to support FR: SO CAN YOU)
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To: All
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/909240/posts
Case Western Reserver Shooter Member of Looney Anti-War Left
Little Green Footballs Weblog ^ | May 10, 2003 | Charles Johnson
114 posted on 05/10/2003 2:38:32 PM PDT by backhoe
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To: cabbieguy
When the story first broke on FOX, it took them a second to say that there was a shooting. The first thing I saw was the building on the screen, and I thought to myself, "wow, that's some serious tornado damage."
115 posted on 05/10/2003 2:41:39 PM PDT by July 4th
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To: Mr. Mojo
Take California. When they decided to ban so-called assault rifles they drew up the law then went looking for a crime to justify it. They released Pat Purdy from the mental institution for the 7th time, let him buy a gun, then he went to the Stockton school yard and shot a bunch of kids. The bill to ban assault rifles was immediatly filed, passed and signed into law before anyone could muster opposition to it.
Brittan. They wanted to ban handguns so they drafted the law then waited for the Dunblane massacre.
When they wanted to ban assault rifles they drafted the law and then Hungerford happened.
I guess I just have lived too long to trust any politician who wants to ban anything "for the children" or to "protect the public". There has always been an alternate motive behind it.
116 posted on 05/10/2003 6:04:08 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (If someone burns a cross on your lawn, the best firehose is an AK-47.)
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To: finnman69
Those buildings . . . It's not hard to see why the poor SOB went 'postal' .


117 posted on 05/10/2003 7:26:32 PM PDT by Crowcreek
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To: wardaddy
Check out the shooters website:

http://junior.apk.net/~halder/

And check his guestbook! FreeRepublic is in there!

118 posted on 05/10/2003 7:41:52 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
guess I just have lived too long to trust any politician who wants to ban anything "for the children" or to "protect the public".

We're on the same page, my FRiend. I'm just unsure as to whether these crimminal incidents you speak of were gov't conspiracies. I'm not saying they're not; I just don't know.

119 posted on 05/10/2003 7:56:36 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: finnman69
why do we not like Gehry. The very first time I saw it I thought it was the most miraculous thing I had ever seen. Your distaste for the building confounds me. My father said the same thing as you. What about it does not amaze you.
120 posted on 05/10/2003 7:59:42 PM PDT by dramaboy
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