Louisiana College Shooting

[MickFury]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/08/la.tech.shooting/index.html

CNN) -- A female student shot two other women and herself Friday morning inside a classroom on the campus of Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge, authorities said.

Baton Rouge police Sgt. Don Kelly said officers responding to a 911 call about 8:30 a.m. found all three already dead in a second-floor classroom.

"There was mass pandemonium, people running," Kelly told The Associated Press. "One officer -- the first into the classroom -- told me he could still smell gunpowder."

The names of the dead were not released.

About 20 people were in the classroom at the time of the shooting, Kelly said. He would not give the room number or say what kind of class it was.

No shots were fired anywhere else, Kelly said

"It's all self-contained in one classroom," Kelly said. The shooter was not believed to have left the room at any point, he said, and "no other students outside the classroom were in any danger."

Police will interview the other students who were in the classroom to find out why the shooting occurred, Kelly said.

[Rogue]

With three major shootings in the past week, Gun Control groups are going to have a field day.

[The Reaper]

How about we lock up crazy people, allow concealed carry by law-abiding citizens to defend themselves, and quit giving these shitheads the publicity they crave?

No reporting, chuck them in an unmarked grave.

TR

[MickFury]

I posted this after I read the I read the Mindset forum as well as the School Shootings / Active Shooter thread / Paul Howe's School Shootings article and book. A lot of the ideas I came up (originally posted at LF) were already brought up in those threads/writings.

Any media coverage of these wastes of space is only going to convince weak-minded ilk that they will get noticed for their cowardice and be remembered.

My friend recently introduced me to the group Students For Concealed Carry On Campus. While I highly doubt that an interest group can overturn many State rulings regarding Concealed Carry, I do believe that with the requisite training for a handgun (Safety, Marksmanship, Mindset) having an unobtrusingly armed populace is both a great deterrent as well as a decent response to active shooter scenarios when SRO's and Police departments are currently unavilable. (The Appalachian Law School Shooting comes to mind, although the two armed responders were LEO's, and the man who tackled the coward was a former Marine and LEO. I don't consider most blogs as a reputable source of journalism, but this one does an accurate description of events of both this and other school shootings if you wish to read more: http://freestudents.blogspot.com/2007/04/when-mass-killers-meet-armed-resistance.html

I recall one Sociology class where one entire period was spent talking of humanity's inability to comprehend serial killers / mass murderers and the link was made that because we cannot understand them, we will never fully know what their rationale behind what their actions were. I made the argument that the class was looking at the symptoms and not the root causes, that ultimately these people were killers and should be dealth with accordingly; either locked up in prison, psychiatric wards, or killed if their actions endangered the populace.

I sincerely wish that we, as a country, would allow a better response to this scenario and that this response would never have cost the number of lives of our citizens that it has.

[GratefulCitizen]

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[MickFury]

Update to this story:

LEO's were inside the building in under 5 minutes from when they were notified., according to the article. The information posted on http://www.lctcs.edu/news.asp?articleID=330 placed the initial response time at 2 minutes.

Full Story:

http://www.wtol.com/global/story.asp?s=7847298

BATON ROUGE, LA - (WAFB) Baton Rouge police say a young woman killed two female students in a classroom at a vo-tech college Friday, then killed herself. Police identified the victims as Karsheika Graves, age 21, and Tanieshia-Deanna Butler, age 26. Investigators identified the shooter as Latina Williams, age 23. Sergeant Don Kelly with Baton Rouge police says all three were students at the Louisiana Technical College campus. The shooter's family lives in Mississippi. Baton Rouge police visited with them Friday night, trying to figure out what might have led Latina Williams to open fire. Funeral arrangements for the victims are still pending.


Young people called their parents from the Louisiana Technical College Friday morning, pleading for them to call 911. The school is located on Airline Highway at Winbourne Avenue. The investigation continues into why anyone would shoot and kill innocent school mates. Here is what we do know:

At 8:36, phone calls started pouring into Baton Rouge police from students inside the classroom building where the shots were fired.

At 8:37, police were on their way to the campus to investigate the complaints.

By 8:40, officers were entering the building, not knowing if the shooting was over or if someone with a gun was still roaming the halls.

"This is a situation where you have to analyze everything that goes on. There was nobody virtually that could have stopped, I believe, what happened today, absent checking everybody as they came into the building. But besides that, it's a sad commentary when you have young people who are here to be educated at a great institution. And yet, they are gunned down and become innocent victims of violence at school. So to those families, to parents, to other people in the community, relatives of these individuals on both sides, this is a tragic day for Baton Rouge, it's a tragic day for the nation," Mayor Kip Holden says.

[Pete]

I'll go out on a limb here and say that the perp targeted the two young ladies.

I'd figure drugs or a guy/guys.

Notice how this dropped off the national news in less than 24 hrs? Nancy G where are ya'?