Appalachian School of Law ShootingsNews Stories in the week after the Appalachian School of Law ShootingsToday (7:00 AM ET) - NBC- (Found June 19, 2008 ) MATT LAUER, co-host: Good morning. Death on campus. A 43-year-old law student is in custody in Virginia after going on a shooting rampage killing three and wounding three others before he was captured. The stunned community at Appalachian Law School holds a memorial service for the victims today, Thursday, January 17th, 2002. Announcer: From NBC News, this is TODAY, with Katie Couric and Matt Lauer, live from Studio 1A in Rockefeller Plaza. LAUER: And welcome to TODAY on a Thursday morning....http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/17#224 The New York Times- (Found June 19, 2008 ) A distressed student facing suspension stormed through the campus of the Appalachian School of Law today with a handgun, killing the dean, a professor and a student and wounding three others before he was tackled by fellow students, the state police reported. &8220;Come get me, come get me,&8221; the gunman was heard saying as terrorized witnesses ran for their lives here in this coal mining town in a remote corner of mountainous Appalachia. &8220;He was a time bomb waiting to go off,&8221; Dr..http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/17#226 Newsday (New York)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) A student who had been dismissed from law school opened fire at the campus yesterday, shooting to death three people, including the dean of the small Appalachian School of Law in rural Grundy, Va., authorities said. Police said the gunman, identified as Peter Odighizuwa, 42, also wounded three female students at the school before being overpowered by classmates and taken into custody by police. The dead included Dean L. Anthony Sutin and Prof. Thomas Blackwell, said Ellen Qualls, a spokeswoman..http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/17#227 Roanoke Times & World News (Roanoke, VA)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) Todd Ross was walking toward the Appalachian School of Law on Wednesday when he heard the shots. Then he saw dozens of his fellow students pouring out of the main door. He would learn later that two faculty members and a student inside had been killed and that three other students had been wounded. Ross, a third-year law student from Johnson City, Tenn., had no idea what was happening, but he retreated into the parking lot. &8220;That&8217;s when he came out,&8221; Ross said. Peter Odighizuwa,..http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/17#239 Roanoke Times & World News (Roanoke, VA)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) Anthony Sutin was the dean students aspired to emulate. Thomas Blackwell was the professor whose door was always open. Angela Dales was the cheerful former recruiter for the school who was in her first year of law school. All three died Wednesday when a recently dismissed student with a history of mental instability walked into the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy and went on a shooting spree. Three others were wounded. The news of the shooting sent shock waves across Virginia and beyond. In.http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/17#238 Roanoke Times & World News (Roanoke, VA)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) Minutes after he was told that he had flunked out of law school, a student went on a shooting rampage Wednesday, killing three people and wounding another three at the Appalachian School of Law. &8220;Pray for me,&8221; Peter Odighizuwa reportedly told a law professor before gunfire rang out on the normally tranquil campus. Authorities said other students wrestled Odighizuwa to the ground outside the school&8217;s main building following the afternoon shooting, which claimed the lives of the...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/17#237 Richmond Times Dispatch (Virginia)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) A student suspended for poor grades is charged with killing three people and wounding three others yesterday at the Appalachian School of Law before fellow students tackled and subdued him, according to authorities. L. Anthony Sutin, 42, the dean of the school, and associate professor Thomas Blackwell, 41, were in their offices when they were shot and killed. The third person killed was student Angela Dales, 33, of Vansant, according to state police. Peter Odighizuwa, 43, a Nigerian student who.http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/17#235 The Record (Bergen County, NJ)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) A struggling Nigerian law school student went on a campus shooting spree Wednesday, killing the dean, a professor, and a student before he was tackled by students, authorities said. The attack also wounded three students at the Appalachian School of Law. Two were in surgery Wednesday evening and the third was listed in fair condition. &8220;When I got there, there were bodies laying everywhere,&8221; said Dr. Jack Briggs, who was one of the first to arrive after the shooting in this small...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/17#234 The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) - A student who had been dismissed from law school went on a campus shooting rampage yesterday, killing the dean, a professor and a student before he was tackled by students, authorities said. The attack also wounded three female students at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Va. They were in hospital in fair condition. &8220;When I got there, there were bodies laying everywhere,&8221; said Dr. Jack Briggs, one of the first to arrive after the shooting in the tiny mountain community in...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/17#233 Orlando Sentinel (Florida)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) A student apparently irate over his failing grades killed three people and seriously wounded three others Wednesday at a small private law school in Grundy, Va., amid the coal fields of Appalachia, authorities said. Other students tackled the gunman to the ground minutes after he stalked through the tiny campus of the Appalachian School of Law with a semiautomatic handgun&8212;killing a student, a popular professor and the school&8217;s dean. State police said they were holding Peter...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/17#230 |