Shooting at Clevelands Case Western Reserve U-- 2 Hurt

FOXMSNBCCNN | 5-09-03 | Dog

[CheneyChick]

Was it a single-shot semi-auto bolt action he was using? Or was it fully automatic?

Either one, Diane Feinstein doesn't like it.

[Dog]

If this guy was a student he would have had access to the school with a swipe card..

[Tree of Liberty]

I'm guessing that the stupidity of the building's profile is going to have a bigger impact than the story that brought it to national attention.

[kcvl]

Man opens fire with machine gun at university; two injured


By M.R. KROPKO
The Associated Press
5/9/03 5:10 PM



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.

[cgk]

I believe it is the donation of DNC's largest contributor and pot smoker, the owner of Progressive Insurance

Didn't O'Reilly blast Progressive Insurance for advertising during VH1's Music Behind Bars series?

[iconoclast]

The bldg looks broken, IMHO.

I guess I have mixed emotions since it eclipses what was done to our beautiful classic Grecian Art Museum in Toledo a few years ago.

[Peach]

The witness on CNN (who was a black male) said this was not a student. Don't know how he knew that. Perhaps the age?

The interviewer didn't follow-up; would have been good to ask the witness how he knew the shooter wasn't a student.

[mabelkitty]

So the shooting occurred INSIDE THIS BUILDING?

This is the Weatherhead School of Business.

[Peach]

One would think that in addition to mentioning the book bag, the reporter would think it relevant to mention the race of the shooter. You know, just in case there is a BOLO.

[Tree of Liberty]

One person was shot outside the building. One or two people have been shot inside the building.

[ninenot]

So it's just a co-incidence that as the Ohio CC law is being debated that there's a shoot-out at Case Western Reserve, huh?

[Dog]

This guy broke a glass window to get in the building...if he was a student he would have had a security swipe card to gain access..

[Peach]

Good point (re student swipe card)

[per loin]

Gibson on Fox: "You are not looking at tornado damage."

[txdoda]

"euro-trash architect" >>>>>>

Yikes!! "BIG tin foil hats" on buildings ?? What next ??

[Tree of Liberty]

Just FYI, according to Packing.org, no civilians can conceal-carry in Ohio as of last November.

[adam_az]

CNN has released a photo of the suspected Schumer... I mean Shooter.

[spectre]

"I'm guessing that the stupidity of the building's profile is going to have a bigger impact than the story that brought it to national attention."

John Gibson just said it was an "unusual building...you're not looking at Tornado damage"...LOL. OMG, that building soooooo embarrassing to even look at..!!!!!

[ninenot]

Fully Automatic Bolt, Break-Open Action

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Didn't the DC sniper case happen right before the mid-term election in 2002?