School Shooting - Case Western Reserve U
 

Breaking news - possible hostages - 2 students shot so far. Gunman still in a campus building...keep watch on TV, and pray.

i just saw it on the news. violence- it just doesnt quit:mad:

yeah it's very shocking! I took classes there my freshman year. First time I've seen that new building...it used to be an open field....

Yes, this will probably not be the last campus shooting at a university (nor a high school) either. :(

I keep thinking I'll post but don't know what to say.

There are still a whole lot of people I know on campus, and I'm just crossing my fingers that none of them would have had reason to be at the management building today. Please keep everyone who is trapped in the building in your thoughts and prayers.

The following from WKYC-TV, the NBC station in Cleveland at about 6:53 EDT:

CLEVELAND -- Two people have been shot on the campus of Case Western University and a gunman is still at large and may have hostages.

A SWAT team of 20 to 30 people ran into the building with weapons drawn at about 6:40 p.m.


A lone gunman wearing fatigues reportedly entered the campus building around 4 p.m. Friday afternoon and began shooting.


One was of the vicitims taken to Cleveland's University Hospital, there's no word yet on the condition of that victim.


The other victim remains untreated inside the Lewis building.


Police have surrounded the Peter B. Lewis building which is home to Case's School of Management.


A worker in the building says she saw a black man with a camoflauge shirt firing a machine gun at people that walked by him.


Sachin Goel, a 26-year-old master's student from India, says he was walking on the first floor outside the cafeteria when the gunman shot one of his friends.


Goel says the gunman then fired at him but he and another friend dove under a table in a hallway.

Bonnie Copes, an administrative assistant who is locked inside the building says she heard several gunshots beginning around 4 p.m.


Copes says emergency medical workers could not get in to help two people who were hurt.

One witness says that his sister is trapped inside the building. She called her boyfriend and said that she was huddled under her desk and couldn't leave her office.


For law school students, this was the last day of exams. CWRU student James Lisher says he was taking a final exam and didn't know there was anything wrong when he left an adjacent building at 4:10 p.m.


"Not many people were there today," Lisher says. "There were five people with me taking exams."


Emergency crews, police, and SWAT are on the scene. The nearby Cleveland Botanical Gardens have been evacuated.


The $62 million Lewis building is in the Mather Quad section of the campus of Case Western, at the corner of Ford and Bellflower roads. It opened in October, 2002.


There are 1,496 undergrad and graduate students in the Management program, with 84 full-time faculty members.


Case is located in University Circle, a 550-acre, park-like concentration of approximately 50 cultural, medical, educational, religious, and social service institutions located just east of downtown Cleveland.


The school has a total enrollment of 9,530 students.


We will continue to update this story on wkyc.com and bring you the latest video on Channel 3.

So sad...

from Cleveland, Ohio. . .came home to Cleveland yesterday, what a way to come home and hear. :(

Have they got the gunman & hostages out of the building yet? (It's 7:30 EST here - can't watch the news, Mr. Mox is PS2-ing)

This is so sad. I have many friends attending school at CWRU. I pray that this situation does not escalate.

Not that I've heard. The TV here is not getting CNN for some reason and NWCN has gone back to Northwest news coverage.

From what I last saw on TV, they are still inside the building. :(

I have a friend @ the law school.

One of my sisters from my chapter is in her first year of law school there too... hopefully i'll see her get online soon

http://www.cleveland.com/wkyc/wkyc_c...emg_wkyc.frame

You can get continuous live coverage here.

Dani, I hope your friend is OK. The law school is right next door. There are only 43 people in the Lewis building though, and I think they've cleared out the surrounding area.

Cleared out everything, including the fraternity houses. One of the women inside is 7 mos. prego. :(

My mom just told me one person is dead. :(

CLEVELAND -- The man who opened fire at Case Western Reserve University’s Peter B. Lewis building Friday afternoon is in police custody.

* Video: Hostages freed, suspect in custody
* University hotline: 216-368-3333


The suspect, described as a black man in his 50s wearing a camouflage shirt and army hat, shot one person in the buttocks outside of the building. That victim is in stable condition at Huron Hospital.

The shooter then broke through a glass door in the building with a hammer and shot another person who was later pronounced dead at University Hospital. His friend, 26-year-old Sachin Goel, a masters student from India, said the gunman tried to shoot him and another friend but they dove under a table in a hallway.

An employee in the building said the suspect was randomly shooting at people that walked by him.


Between 60 and 80 people were in the building at the time. Police and SWAT teams from Cleveland and Euclid quickly responded as well as FBI agents and EMS. Nearby buildings, including the Cleveland Botanical Gardens, were evacuated.


A SWAT team was seen running into the building at about 6:40 p.m. SWAT teams were also seen going into surrounding buildings shortly afterwards.


Three people, including a pregnant woman, were rescued from inside the building by EMS crews wearing bullet-proof vests around 8 p.m., escorted by police. The pregnant woman may have gone into premature labor, but is in stable condition. Several K-9 units were seen being brought to the scene at about the same time.


Cleveland police chief Edward Lohn said police and SWAT were going through the building room by room in an effort to free those who were trapped inside. As people were freed, many were loaded into waiting buses and whisked away from the scene.


Witnesses describe shooting


Many of those trapped inside the Peter B. Lewis building were communicating with loved ones via cell phones and even e-mail. The son of a man who works in the building said his father was hiding underneath his office desk with his secretary. His father told him he had heard the suspect was opening doors and entering individual offices.

One witness said that his sister was trapped inside the building. She called her boyfriend and said that she was huddled under her desk and couldn't leave her office.

For law school students, Friday was the last day of exams. CWRU student James Lisher said he was taking a final exam and didn't know there was anything wrong when he left an adjacent building at 4:10 p.m.

"Not many people were there today," Lisher said. "There were five people with me taking exams."


About Case Western Reserve


The $62 million Lewis building is in the Mather Quad section of the campus of Case Western, at the corner of Ford and Bellflower roads. It opened in October, 2002.

There are 1,496 undergrad and graduate students in the Management program, with 84 full-time faculty members.

Case is located in University Circle, a 550-acre, park-like concentration of approximately 50 cultural, medical, educational, religious, and social service institutions located just east of downtown Cleveland.

The school has a total enrollment of 9,530 students.

:( So sad.

cause?
 

Any word on what set the shooter off yet?

That is really sad, and very scary. I'm not from Cleveland, butI was there for the dedication of the Lewis building in October. :( I cannot even begin to fathom the sadness, anger, and confusion which is there right now.

Re: cause?
 

Heard on the radio this morning that the gunman was a former university employee who has a lawsuit against the school. The report didn't say what the suit was about. This was according to the president of the university.

CLEVELAND May 10 —

A camouflage-clad gunman who killed a student and injured two other people during a
seven-hour standoff at Case Western Reserve University's business school was a graduate
who had sued an employee at the school, authorities said Saturday.

Biswanath Halder, 52, carried two guns as he walked the halls of the Peter B. Lewis Building and
fired hundreds of rounds of ammunition Friday, police Chief Edward Lohn said. He was also
wearing a bulletproof vest, a wig and "a kind of World War II Army helmet," Lohn said.
The Case Western employee who Halder had sued was in the building but escaped during the
standoff, University President Edward Hundert said. He said the lawsuit, which accused the
employee of having "added and deleted things from a personal Web site" belonging to Halder,
was dismissed and Halder had lost an appeal about a month ago.


And guess what - this psycho has a homepage that talks all about how great peace is!

Here's the guy's webpage:

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

Let Us Make The World A Better Place To Live by Biswanath Halder