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From my hometown this morning, first day of classes at CU-
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/13983580/detail.html
This guy is very lucky. I bet he would have prefered to have something special in his pocket this morning besides a granola bar.
My wife also works on campus and was thinking about taking our boy (18 months) into work this morning, walking right by the UMC, very scary....
Hunter
BOULDER, Colo. -- A student at the University of Colorado was stabbed outside the student center Monday morning and a suspect was quickly captured.
The Boulder Daily Camera identified the injured student as a freshman.
A man in his 50s, suspected of slashing the student across the throat, was restrained by campus police using a stun gun after he began stabbing himself, according to CU police Commander Brad Wiesley. A uniformed officer was nearby when the student was attacked.
The incident took place around 9:45 a.m. at the University Memorial Center on the first day of classes at CU. The UMC was evacuated briefly as a precaution.
A student said police surrounded the armed man but he refused to drop the knife he was holding.
"What are you going to do to me, shoot me?" witnesses quoted the man as saying to the officers.
Police cordoned off the crime scene near Broadway at Euclid, but students could be seen walking freely along the perimeter of the area about 90 minutes after the drama unfolded.
The student who was slashed was not seriously injured, according to Wiesley. He was coherent and able to talk to police after the attack.
The student was treated for his injuries and released.
The man suspected of slashing him was seriously injured from self-inflicted knife wounds. He was rushed to Boulder Community Hospital for treatment.
Wiesley said the man had parked a Jeep Cherokee across the street from the UMC and walked to the west patio of the student center where he started screaming.
It was not immediately known what provoked the man. Some witnesses said he claimed to have a bomb.
"Everyone thought he was doing a skit or something, but it ended up being real," student Cory Ravelson told the Daily Camera.
"He was waving around something shiny and sharp … and people were walking around him," said another student.
That's when a student walking nearby was grabbed from behind and slashed across the neck.
Police shot out a window of the Jeep the man had driven to the campus after they spotted something suspicious-looking inside. The "all clear" was given after the Jeep was thoroughly searched.
A new text-message alert system was used to inform CU students about the incident. The text sent out to students at 10:15 a.m. said: "From CU Police a stabbing at UMC at 9:43 AM Suspect in custody, UMC terrace & Euclid St closed for several hours. More info later at www.colorado.edu/police"
The text-messaging system was put into place after CU officials reviewed safety measures in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings.
Students were told to go to class and the campus has not been shut down.
From my hometown this morning, first day of classes at CU-
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/13983580/detail.html
This guy is very lucky. I bet he would have prefered to have something special in his pocket this morning besides a granola bar.
My wife also works on campus and was thinking about taking our boy (18 months) into work this morning, walking right by the UMC, very scary....
Hunter
BOULDER, Colo. -- A student at the University of Colorado was stabbed outside the student center Monday morning and a suspect was quickly captured.
The Boulder Daily Camera identified the injured student as a freshman.
A man in his 50s, suspected of slashing the student across the throat, was restrained by campus police using a stun gun after he began stabbing himself, according to CU police Commander Brad Wiesley. A uniformed officer was nearby when the student was attacked.
The incident took place around 9:45 a.m. at the University Memorial Center on the first day of classes at CU. The UMC was evacuated briefly as a precaution.
A student said police surrounded the armed man but he refused to drop the knife he was holding.
"What are you going to do to me, shoot me?" witnesses quoted the man as saying to the officers.
Police cordoned off the crime scene near Broadway at Euclid, but students could be seen walking freely along the perimeter of the area about 90 minutes after the drama unfolded.
The student who was slashed was not seriously injured, according to Wiesley. He was coherent and able to talk to police after the attack.
The student was treated for his injuries and released.
The man suspected of slashing him was seriously injured from self-inflicted knife wounds. He was rushed to Boulder Community Hospital for treatment.
Wiesley said the man had parked a Jeep Cherokee across the street from the UMC and walked to the west patio of the student center where he started screaming.
It was not immediately known what provoked the man. Some witnesses said he claimed to have a bomb.
"Everyone thought he was doing a skit or something, but it ended up being real," student Cory Ravelson told the Daily Camera.
"He was waving around something shiny and sharp … and people were walking around him," said another student.
That's when a student walking nearby was grabbed from behind and slashed across the neck.
Police shot out a window of the Jeep the man had driven to the campus after they spotted something suspicious-looking inside. The "all clear" was given after the Jeep was thoroughly searched.
A new text-message alert system was used to inform CU students about the incident. The text sent out to students at 10:15 a.m. said: "From CU Police a stabbing at UMC at 9:43 AM Suspect in custody, UMC terrace & Euclid St closed for several hours. More info later at www.colorado.edu/police"
The text-messaging system was put into place after CU officials reviewed safety measures in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings.
Students were told to go to class and the campus has not been shut down.
. Universities are willing to sacrifice one person so they can keep their gun free zone signs up.
I would hate to think of what the kid had done to require this type of arrest in the middle of a class at University of Central Florida. To think that my sister thought that I was a loon for wanting her to carry pepper spray