Posted on 05/09/2003 2:59:11 PM PDT by demlosers
CLEVELAND (AP) -- A man opened fire with a machine gun Friday at the business school at Case Western Reserve University. At least two people were reported injured.
Witnesses said the gunman was firing indiscriminantly.
School spokeswoman Marcie Hersh said the lone gunman was still in the Peter B. Lewis Building, which had been locked down. One person had been shot outside and was taken to a hospital. The other wounded person remained inside the building, she said.
LeKisha Spencer, 28, who works in a first-floor cafeteria said, she heard a bang and a saw a man walking inside the building toward the front.
"He had a machine gun, book bag, camouflage shirt, military green hat, white pants and a bookbag," she said. "I didn't see his face.
"He was just walking, aiming his guns and firing.
"I just went to the phone and dialed 911. I heard another bang."
She ran from the building.
"When I ran out the door, I still heard shots."
Squad cars surrounded the block, and officers had guns trained on the building, said William Day, a student at the Cleveland Institute of Music who was passing by.
Bonnie Copes, an administrative assistant, said she heard several gunshots beginning around 4 p.m.
Copes, 50, was locked in a department office inside the building and unable to leave. She continued to hear gunshots.
"Rounds and rounds and rounds," she said.
The $62 million Peter B. Lewis Building opened in the fall and was designed by Frank Gehry, the internationally renowned architect who also created the titanium-covered Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain.
Case Western is at University Circle, a park-like setting of cultural, medical and educational institutions on the eastern edge of downtown. The school has 9,500 students.
The Lewis building is about five stories high. Instead of walls on the south side, it has a curving roof, made of 20,000 stainless-steel shingles, that seemingly tumbles to the ground.
Lewis, an art collector and the billionaire chairman of Progressive Insurance, gave Case $37 million toward construction of the building, which opened in the fall.
Another sleeper activated to go bezerk with a gun, just in time to be used as fodder for the reauthorization of the Assault Weapon (sic) ban.....
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Because anyone watching on TV would have thought the guy set off a huge bomb in the building.
They always do, never mind the facts. Dancing in blood no matter what and the media plays right along.
It will be interesting to see what weapon this crazy was actually using. plus whether he had it legally, etc.
Yeah, what is an assault weapon now?
As I recall, an assault weapon was named to a class of rifles that have a high cyclic rate like a submachine gun and still retain the accuracy of a long rifle.
Another word bastardized by the left?
Another sleeper activated to go bezerk with a gun, just in time to be used as fodder for the reauthorization of the Assault Weapon (sic) ban.....
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Say what you may but this was predicted just an hour ago in a different thread:
We'll see how resilient Tom Delay and the GOP is after a few more remotely-controlled psychos shoot up universities and playgrounds at the most convenient moments during anti-firearms legislation in Washington.
9 posted on 05/09/2003 4:40 PM CDT by The KG9 Kid
I wonder how long before we hear from the VPC shrills.
At least today....
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It sure seems like it. It was only yesterday that Sen. F- Swine introduced the legislation.
I wondered about that too. A total non-sequitur.
About a decade ago, a woman did something similar at Penn State. Instead of holing up in a building, she hid in the bushes near Old Main. I saw recently where someone interviewed her to see how she's doing. It sounded like she was saying she shot people from the bushes to warn them she was going to kill herself. Funny, she never got around to that part.
Guns don't kill, people kill!
LeKisha said it was a machine gun.
Don't you believe her?
She works in the first floor cafeteria afterall.
I'm sure she must be intimately familiar with all types of firearms.
Sure, there is a price: It is in time spent in training and learning competence with weapons. Actions like this are not a result of the 2nd Amendment, but of the gradual erosion of the 2nd Amendment, the destruction of traditional American values, and the creation of defenseless victim zones, such as Case Western Reserve University.
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