Posted on 08/13/2012 11:36:46 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat
Texas A&M University says a shooter has been taken into custody near its campus in College Station.
College Station police spokeswoman Rhonda Seaton tells CNN multiple people have been shot, including law enforcement, but she doesn't know the extent of the injuries.
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Shooting Near Texas A&M Reportedly Downs Two Officers
Update (2:35 p.m. EDT): The local NBC affiliate KCEN reports six people were shot, including two police officers.
Update (2:15 p.m. EDT): Spokeswoman Rhonda Seaton, of the College Station police department, which responded to the shooting, tells CNN that there are “multiple” injuries, but she couldn’t yet say how many. She said the shooting happened “within a block or two” of campus.
Original: The early reports of a gunman near the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, outside of Houston, say a shooter, now in custody, appeared to be firing from a house with automatic weapons, hitting at least two police. The local station KBTX reported that “scanner traffic indicates that at least two officers are down.” We’ll keep the news updated as reporters arrive on the scene. The shooting, of course, comes on the heels of the mass shooting at a Wisconsin Sikh temple on Aug. 5, and the massacre at a Colorado movie theater on July 20. This shooting took place off campus. Police told CNN they issued a “Code Maroon” out of precaution.
reading on some A&M message boards that this was an eviction notice or warrant being served by a constable and that the constable was shot and the guy barricaded himself into the house and started shooting ....
Oh yeah. Most everyone at FR has noticed. TX has a statewide ban on OC, and I don’t think CC is permitted on universities...for those who wish to pay the steep TX self-defense tax.
Some posts there that no one was killed.
Since this happened in Texas, if the shooter killed anyone, he will certainly get the needle. There is no reluctance here to use the death penalty.
No, they’ll try and find a way to link it to Paul Ryan.
I have to check with my sister. Brother in law works on campus.
Suspect in Custody, Shooting Near Highland and Fidelity Streets in College Station1:31 PM Update:
Watch the Live Stream (when available)
CSPD will be holding a press conference momentarily regarding the shooting near Fidelity Street in College Station.
According to CSPD, a suspect has been taken into custody and the scene is reportedly under control and there is no longer a danger to the public.
We have multiple crews on the scene and will continue to bring you more details as they become available.
1:16 PM Update:
News 3 crew on the scene has confirmed that more than one law enforcement officer has been shot in an incident near Fidelity Street in College Station.
A spokesperson for the College Station Police Department says there are no confirmed fatalities at this point.
The scene is reportedly under control and there is no longer a danger to the public.
We have crews on the scene and will continue to bring you updates online and on air as we learn them.
Update from the City of College Station
12:55 p.m.
According to CSPD, the active shooter has been contained. Multiple casualties are involved, but there is no confirmation yet on the identity of any, or whether or not any are members of local law enforcement agencies.
College Station Police continue to work the area of Fidelity Street to ensure there aren’t any additional suspects involved.
Update: Police have shooter in custody.
News 3 is en-route to an officer involved shooting in College Station.
Reports via police scanner say it’s near Fidelity and Highland streets.
It appears that the shooter is shooting from a house with automatic weapons.
Scanner traffic indicates that at least two officers are down.
Details are limited at this time.
We have a crew headed to the scene and we will have more on this as details are made available.
Is this a new shooting?
It’s hard to keep up with these lately.
Open carry of rifles, shotguns and other long arms is legal without a permit in Texas. Just not pistols.
Yes...unfortunately they did away with the electric chair. Whenever one of those events was scheduled, up in Fort Worth we used to turn off a few lights just in case they needed some extra juice.
The obvious target is the guns, but an even scarier result would be the ability of police to detain an individual on another’s word that they are crazy. Can guarantee you that yet again someone reported the perpetrator was nuts and “nothing was done”.
Texas A&M is the sixth biggest university in the country and the home of the George W. Bush Presidential Library.
BUSH'S FAULT!!!
“Open carry of rifles, shotguns and other long arms is legal without a permit in Texas. Just not pistols”
I stand corrected. However, very few people I know are willing to shlepp a rifle or shotgun around town.
“...automatic weapons...”
THOSE THINGS again? OMG!
...but come to think of it, not a bad idea in those few states where OC of handguns is banned...
An interesting quirk of the law is that if you legally own or possess a Class III full auto weapon or other NFA-restricted arm, you may also carry that as if it were a non Class III. So it’s completely legal to stroll down a main street in Texas with a real M-16 slung over your back.
If you have a CCW and a legal machine pistol or submachine gun, you can conceal and carry that as well.
GWB’s presidential library is at SMU, not TA&M
My husband is currently on a road trip from California to take my son to A&M for his freshman year.
Glad this happened before he got there. I’d be a nervous wreck, especially because I was in a famous business shooting (Richard Farley at ESL).
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