[Dan from Michigan]

I swear these always come in bunches. Nothing for a year, then two or three in a row. Copycats prehaps?

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

6 shot, 3 dead at Law School in Grundy, Virgina

[Aric2000]

Is it a FULL moon or something? geez louise!!

[Sir Gawain]

Crap.

[kayak]

Prayers!

[July 4th]

We're not back to class at UW Law until next week...I'm sure there will be some talk about this.

[Saundra Duffy]

Nothing yet on CNN website. Keep us posted, please.

[Right Wing Professor]

I hope this isn't a joke, because if it is, I know the punch-line.

"A good start"

[July 4th]

It opened in 1997. FOX news reporting the dean has been killed??

[Cold Heat]

Foreign exchange student did not like his grades.

[Ward Smythe]

ping

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Three slain, three wounded during shooting spree at western Virginia law school

Wednesday, January 16, 2002
©2002 Associated Press

URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/01/16/national1446EST0703.DTL

(01-16) 11:46 PST GRUNDY, Va. (AP) -- A gunman killed three people and wounded three others during a shooting spree Wednesday at a tiny law school in the Appalachian foothills, officials said.

The slain included a student, a faculty member and the dean of the Appalachian School of Law, L. Anthony Sutin, said Ellen Qualls, spokeswoman for Gov. Mark Warner. The governor is a former member of the school's board.

State police believe students apprehended the suspect, Qualls said. Details were not immediately available, though Qualls said the weapon was a .380-caliber semiautomatic handgun.

Three students were wounded and taken to Buchanan General Hospital, Qualls said.

The law school, with an enrollment of about 170 students, opened in 1997 in a renovated junior high school in this small town 120 miles west of Roanoke.

The school was opened with the hope of easing a historic shortage of lawyers in the coalfields of southwest Virginia, as well as help change the region's image and foster renewal in Appalachia. It graduated its first class of 34 in 2000.

The school has about 15 faculty members, including alumni of law schools at the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia, Harvard and Howard universities.

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On the Net: Appalachian Law School: www.asl.edu

[NC_Libertarian]

This has nothing to do with this incident, but I hate lawyers.

[July 4th]

So, it's a foreign exchange student. Is it possible he was here on a student visa? Maybe when he got his grades, he realized they were going to kick him out. This would have revoked his visa.

[aomagrat]

The gun-banners are putting on their dancing shoes and dusting off their 'gun show loophole' speeches.

[RippleFire]

From http://www.wral.com/news/1192780/detail.html

Six People Shot At Virginia Law School

Three People Confirmed Dead

POSTED: 2:27 p.m. EST January 16, 2002

UPDATED: 2:50 p.m. EST January 16, 2002

GRUNDY, Va. -- Police say as many as six people have been shot at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia near the Kentucky-Virginia border.

Three people were killed and three wounded in a shooting spree Wednesday at the school in Virginia, officials said.

Three students were taken to the hospital.

Newsman Tony Turner of WYMT-TV in Hazard said he interviewed a student who told him a foreign exchange student opened fire on a professor and others because he was upset over grades that were posted.

Among the dead was Anthony Sutton, dean of the school established in 1997, said Ellen Qualls, spokeswoman for Gov. Mark Warner, a former member of the school's board. Also killed were a student and another member of the faculty, she said.

Warner's spokeswoman said the weapon was a .380 semiautomatic handgun.

State police believe students apprehended the shooter, who is now in custody, Qualls said.

The Buchanan County law school opened five years ago in a renovated junior high school. About 170 students attend the school.

The school has about 15 faculty members, including alumni of law schools at the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia, Harvard and Howard universities.

Refresh this page later for the latest updates.

[Mudboy Slim]

Bump to SW Virginians...MUD

[Blade]

Too bad somebody wasn't carrying.

[LibWhacker]

Just heard on FOX he might be from Nigeria.

[aculeus]

Latest report: he's from Nigeria.