Everyone on campus is talking about this. It happened around 1 in the morning last night. I really wish I knew who this was... I'm sure it will come out sometime soon. Pretty much everyone is praising his actions. While I'm not sure he needed to kill the guy, I have to say that the rate of crime and burglary around campus (this is literally a 2 minute walk from the freshman dorms) has gotten really ridiculous. I live in an apartment, not a row house, because I don't want to deal with this kind of crap. It's frustrating and infuriating. Not to mention the school just had a non-lethal shooting at a night club filled with students (just a few blocks over) and is dealing with a swine flu outbreak. What a month.
I doubt the student is affiliated, but this is just a few houses down from the Beta house. Scary.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...,4027961.story
A Johns Hopkins University student armed with a samurai sword killed a man who broke into the garage of his off-campus residence early Tuesday, a Baltimore police spokesman said.
According to preliminary reports, a resident of the 300 block of E. University Parkway called police about a suspicious person, department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. An off-duty officer responded about 1:20 a.m. to the area with university security, according to Guglielmi. They heard shouts and screams from a neighboring house and found the suspected burglar suffering from a nearly severed hand and lacerations to his upper body, he said.
The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.
The student told police that he heard a commotion in the house and went downstairs armed with a samurai sword, Guglielmi said. He saw the side door to the garage had been pried open and found a man inside, who lunged at the student.
Detectives were still interviewing the student and his three roommates Tuesday morning, Guglielmi said. Burglars had already stolen two laptops and a Sony PlayStation from the student's home Monday, according to Guglielmi.
Dennis O'Shea, a spokesman for Johns Hopkins, said all four residents of the house are undergraduate students at the university.
The suspected burglar, whose name was not released pending notification of next of kin, had prior convictions for breaking and entering and had just been released Saturday from a Baltimore County facility, Guglielmi said.
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