Appalachian School of Law ShootingsNews Stories in the week after the Appalachian School of Law ShootingsChicago Sun-Times- (Found June 19, 2008 ) Attorney Thomas Blackwell left Chicago for the mountains of Appalachia because he believed he could make a difference in the lives of law students there, his former colleagues recalled Thursday. Blackwell, who began his teaching career at Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1997, was among three killed Wednesday when a former student at Appalachian School of Law went on a shooting rampage after learning he had been dismissed for failing grades. The school&8217;s dean and a student also were...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#096 Charlotte Observer (North Carolina)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) One of the four students who subdued a gunman at the Appalachian School of Law in Virginia on Wednesday is an N.C. native and former Charlottean. Mikael Gross, 34, a first-year student at the small school in Grundy, Va., told The Observer he worked as a state alcohol law enforcement agent in Charlotte from 1996 until 1998 and earned a master&8217;s degree in criminal justice at UNC Charlotte in 1997. Two other men who helped bring the gunman under control also have worked as law enforcement...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#095 Calgary Herald (Alberta, Canada)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) The expelled student accused of killing his dean and two others in a campus shooting spree at Appalachian School of Law in Virginia on Wednesday 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;He was..http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#094 Bristol Evening Post- (Found June 19, 2008 ) AMERICA: A law student who is accused of killing his college dean, a professor and another student told a judge in Virginia yesterday that he is sick and needs help. Peter, a 43-year-old naturalised American from Nigeria, shot his dean at the Appalachian School of Law yesterday as well as professor Thomas Blackwell, who taught him. He then opened fire on students, killing Angela Dales, 33, and injuring three others. Students ended the rampage by tackling him.http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#093 Daily Press (Newport News, VA)- (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;He was supposed to help me out &8230; I...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#101 Daily Press (Newport News, VA)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) Law school dean L. Anthony Sutin, slain in his office during a campus shooting rampage, was a highly successful lawyer who left a career in the halls of power to deliver better legal services to the poor of Appalachia. He came to tiny Grundy in the coalfields of southwestern Virginia in 1999 to become dean of the Appalachian School of Law, a private school established two years earlier. A student angry over flunking out ended Sutin&8217;s life Wednesday with a gunshot to the head,...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#102 Daily Press (Newport News, VA)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) Mourners lit candles, then sat silently in their glow. One day after gunfire shattered the serenity of this tiny, southwest Virginia town, there seemed little anyone at the Appalachian School of Law and the community it calls home could do but sit in silence, lost in their agony and question &8220;why&8221; &8220;Columbine seemed like a world away, until lunch yesterday,&8221; the Rev. Stan Parris told a few hundred people at a memorial service at Grundy Baptist Church. On Wednesday, a...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#103 Lexington Herald Leader (Kentucky)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) GRUNDY, Va.&8212;Throughout his star-crossed career as a law student, classmates said, Peter Odighizuwa had been asking people in this small coalfield town for help, and was receiving it. Yesterday, the 43-year-old&8212;accused of shooting to death the Appalachian School of Law&8217;s dean, a professor and a former classmate&8212;pleaded for another form of help. During his arraignment in the Buchanan County Courthouse, Odighizuwa, with his legs shackled, told a judge he was sick and needed...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#114 Hobart Mercury (Australia)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) A FAILED law student executed two professors then shot dead a fellow student inside a small American university yesterday. Three more students were in a critical condition after being shot as they ran through the corridors of the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia. The gunman, 43-year-old Nigerian foreign exchange student Peter Odighizuma, was wrestled to the ground and disarmed of his .38-calibre automatic pistol by four other students, police said. The dead included the...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#113 Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) A FAILED law student executed two professors then shot dead a fellow student at a small American university yesterday. Three more students are in a critical condition after being shot as they ran through the corridors of the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia. The gunman, 43-year-old Nigerian foreign exchange student Peter Odighizuma, was wrestled to the ground and disarmed of his 38-calibre automatic pistol by four other students. The dead included the university&8217;s dean,...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#112 |