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BREAKING: Radford University locked down after shooting death near campus
CNN ^ | 03 APRIL 2009 | CNN

Posted on 4/3/2009, 4:24:53 AM by Extremely Extreme Extremist

CNN) -- Students at Radford University in Virginia locked their doors and were being warned to stay inside Thursday after a man was shot and killed near campus.

A man was shot in the chest and killed in a residential area a couple of blocks from the school's Radford, Virginia, campus at about 9:10 p.m., according to university spokesman Michael Hemphill.

He said authorities believe the shooter then fled onto campus.

In a series of phone calls, e-mails and text messages, students were being warned that the university was on lockdown.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: banglist; campus; campusshooting; radford; radfordu; ru; schoolviolence
Holy crap! I just posted an article about guns on campuses and now this!
1 posted on 4/3/2009, 4:24:54 AM by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

BUMP


2 posted on 4/3/2009, 4:28:51 AM by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

What’s the deal with this “lockdown” business? Can a citizen be legally imprisoned by the police without benefit of a trial?

I can understand a recommendation to stay inside, but the term “lockdown” makes it sound mandatory.


3 posted on 4/3/2009, 4:29:54 AM by B Knotts (Worst economy since the Third Punic War)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Woooo Woo Woooo You’re psychic man... Prayers for everyones safety...


4 posted on 4/3/2009, 4:31:38 AM by tubebender (99% of Lawyers give the rest a bad name...)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

NOT on campus! Relax! Probably not even related to any students or the school.


5 posted on 4/3/2009, 4:31:45 AM by TaMoDee
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

At UWM we call this kind of incident Friday.


6 posted on 4/3/2009, 4:34:21 AM by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Probably a drug-related killing, with the shooter ducking into the campus. Of course, CNN is going to sensationalize it to make it into another crisis, as in "never waste a good crisis".
7 posted on 4/3/2009, 4:40:19 AM by Major Matt Mason (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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He said authorities believe the shooter then fled onto campus.

Smart guy, fleeing to a "gun free zone".

8 posted on 4/3/2009, 5:38:40 AM by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

My Alma Mater.


9 posted on 4/3/2009, 9:15:51 AM by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Refugee from the World of Doomed Olsens)
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To: GodBlessRonaldReagan

It is just over the mountain from Virginia Tech. In the old days Tech was all male and Radford was all female and considered Tech’s ‘sister school’.


10 posted on 4/3/2009, 9:28:08 AM by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

My first year there was the second year Radford was coed. 3000 women and 150 men - the happiest days of my life!


11 posted on 4/3/2009, 11:21:25 AM by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Refugee from the World of Doomed Olsens)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

One town from Blacksburg...


12 posted on 4/3/2009, 1:07:18 PM by TaxRelief (Walmart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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To: TaxRelief

A local black guy shot another local black guy. Very strange considering this area is 95% white. There is no way it was random.


13 posted on 4/3/2009, 1:23:46 PM by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: AppyPappy

Drugs?


14 posted on 4/3/2009, 3:11:06 PM by TaxRelief (Walmart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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To: TaxRelief

Possibly. Roanoke Times is quiet about it.


15 posted on 4/3/2009, 3:55:55 PM by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: TaxRelief

Victim identified

33 years old from nearby Christiansburg

http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/breaking/wb/199829


16 posted on 4/3/2009, 4:03:06 PM by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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