Appalachian School of Law ShootingsNews Stories in the week after the Appalachian School of Law ShootingsSan Jose Mercury News (California)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) The expelled law school student accused of killing his dean and two others in a campus shooting spree was so paranoid and prone to outbursts that at least one classmate said he saw the violence coming. At Thursday&8217;s arraignment on three counts of capital murder, Peter Odighizuwa, 43, told the judge he was sick and needed help. &8220;I was supposed to see my doctor,&8221; Odighizuwa said, hiding his face behind a green arrest warrant. &8220;I don&8217;t have my medication.&8221; Police said.http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#138 The Seattle Times- (Found June 19, 2008 ) Update &149; Peter Odighizuwa, a former law student charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of three people at Appalachian School of Law, told a court in Grundy, Va., yesterday that he is sick and needs help. Prosecutor Sheila Tolliver said she will seek the death penalty. &149; Carolyn Murphy, a Lennox, Calif., woman who raised puppies related to a mastiff that fatally mauled a San Francisco woman, has averted a trial by pleading no contest to breeding dogs without a license and...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#139 Richmond Times Dispatch (Virginia)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) &8220;I was sick, I was sick. I need help.&8221; That was the terse explanation Peter Odighizuwa offered yesterday when reporters outside the courthouse asked him why he shot and killed three people at the Appalachian School of Law on Wednesday. Three others were wounded. Inside Buchanan County General District Court, Odighizuwa was less vocal. He hid his face and said nothing as a court clerk read the charges against him: three counts of capital murder, three counts of attempted capital murder.http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#128 Richmond Times Dispatch (Virginia)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) Angela Denise Dales was a single mother in the second semester of her long-awaited pursuit of a law degree when she was killed, a former co-worker said. Dales, 33, left her administrative job at the Appalachian School of Law to become a student there in the fall. She was among three people killed Wednesday afternoon in a shooting rampage at the school. The school&8217;s dean, L. Anthony Sutin, 42, and professor Thomas F. Blackwell, 41, also were killed. Dales&8217; 8-year-old daughter, Rebecca,.http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#127 Los Angeles Times- (Found June 19, 2008 ) It was an unlikely place for the two to meet, in the gritty heart of Appalachia. L. Anthony Sutin was a high-ranking Justice Department official, a Harvard-trained constitutional scholar. Peter Odighizuwa was a father of four and a former cabdriver from Nigeria, trying to start over. Sutin had just taken a job as dean of the Appalachian School of Law, an ambitious project aimed at improving legal services in one of the most downtrodden areas of the South. Odighizuwa was one of his...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#117 The New York Times- (Found June 19, 2008 ) Townspeople looked on in shock and grief this morning as the failed law student known on campus as Peter O. was led into the Buchanan County courtroom, shuffling in chains and hiding his face from television cameras, to face murder charges in the bloodiest shooting this remote Appalachian coal town has ever suffered. Peter Odighizuwa looked at the floor as he was accused of assaulting his colleagues at the Appalachian School of Law and murdering the 5-year-old school&8217;s founding dean, a...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#118 Newsday (New York)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) He was just 20 at the time, but even at that young age Anthony Sutin was tackling huge responsibilities. At the Brookhaven Country Day Camp, where Sutin worked several summers in the early 1980s, the job of kitchen manager usually was reserved for older, more experienced people, but camp owner Neil Pollack knew it was in good hands with Sutin. &8220;He was just so organized and such a bright, bright kid,&8221; Pollack said. &8220;He was well liked by everyone.&8221; Relatives and colleagues...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#119 Newsday (New York)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) He was just 20 at the time, but even at that young age Anthony Sutin was tackling huge responsibilities. At the Brookhaven Country Day Camp, where Sutin worked several summers in the early 1980s, the job of kitchen manager usually was reserved for older, more experienced people, but camp owner Neil Pollack knew it was in good hands with Sutin. &8220;He was just so organized and such a bright, bright kid,&8221; Pollack said. Relatives and colleagues said the only thing greater than the Bellport..http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#120 Newsletter- (Found June 19, 2008 ) A LAW student who is accused of killing his college dean, a professor and another student told a judge yesterday that he is sick and needs help. Peter Odighizuwa shuffled into Virginia&8217;s Buchanan County Court in leg chains, surrounded by policemen. Hiding his face behind his green arrest warrant, Odighizuwa told Judge Patrick Johnson, &8220;I was supposed to see my doctor. He was supposed to help me out. I don&8217;t have my medication.&8221; Odighizuwa, a 43-year-old naturalised American..http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#121 The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) The Lowcountry friends and family of a Virginia law school dean gunned down by a student say they are shocked by the death of a man who did nothing his entire life but help people, including the man who killed him. Anthony Sutin had given Peter Odighizuwa a second chance when the man flunked out of the Appalachian School of Law in rural Grundy, Va., something a lot of deans would not have done, his students and colleagues say. But when Sutin would not let Odighizuwa re-enroll a third time,...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#124 |