Friday, February 15, 2008

This Is Getting Fucking Ridiculous! What Is Wrong With People??


I just don't understand it:


http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/02/14/university.shooting/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail

DEKALB, Illinois -- A gunman dressed in black stepped from behind a curtain at the front of a large lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday and shot 21 people, five of them fatally, then shot and killed himself, said university president John Peters.

Four died at the scene, including the shooter, and two later died at the hospital, he said.

At least 22 people, including a graduate student who was teaching an ocean sciences class, were shot, Peters said.

Seventeen victims were taken to Kishwaukee Community Hospital, its Web site said.

Of those, six were in critical condition and were flown to other hospitals. One fatality, a male, was confirmed -- but was not the gunman, the hospital said. Two were admitted, and three others were discharged. The other five were not addressed on the Web site.

Four of the fatalities were female, said Peters.

Most of the injuries are head and chest gunshot wounds, a hospital spokeswoman told CNN.

The gunman started shooting from a stage in the room shortly after 3 p.m. (4 p.m. ET) in Cole Hall, officials said.

Police Chief Donald Grady said authorities do not yet know of a motive.

They know the identity of the gunman but have not released his name, Grady added.

The shooter was a graduate student at NIU in the spring of 2007. Currently he was not enrolled there but, Grady said, "He may have been a student elsewhere."

Kevin McEnery said he was in the classroom when the gunman, dressed in a black shirt, dark pants and black hat, burst in carrying a shotgun.






I just don't understand people anymore, I guess. . . I mean we are finally starting to breathe normally after the Virginia Tech Incident, and now this happens. Why?


RIP to all the innocent victims. . .



TomC

1 comment:

Princesse Ecossaise said...

Oh my God...I had no idea, it hasn't yet been reported over here.

Is there no end to this disgusting act of kids getting their hands on guns and going psycho?!

And sometimes, the way the media tell us everything about the gunman; name, age, background, why he might have committed such an act shows other really fecked up kids that this is the way to get famous, to be a legend, to go down in history at the same time as getting revenge.

Seriously, the media are making it worse. I know they need to write about the facts but I'm starting to think they should keep the name and all other info about the gunmen totally quiet. The guy at virginia tech did say he was going to be famous because of what he was about to do...

So while all this is on the news some mentally unstable kid is sitting at home watching the story, plotting his revenge on bullies at school. And thats the next guy who'll be killing innocent people before taking his own life.

Can't believe this has happened. Again. So sad for all the victims and their families.