Appalachian School of Law ShootingsNews Stories in the week after the Appalachian School of Law ShootingsDayton Daily News (Ohio)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) DAYTON - The 43-year-old man who is accused of shooting and killing three people and wounding three others at a Virginia law school graduated from Central State University and taught for Trotwood-Madison elementary schools during his days in the Miami Valley. Peter Odighizuwa graduated from CSU in 1999 with a degree in mathematics, university spokesman Jim Cleveland said Friday. Also, Trotwood-Madison School District spokeswoman Debbie Clements said Odighizuwa was employed by the district for...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/19#070 This Day (Nigeria): AAGM- (Found June 19, 2008 ) A Nigeria citizen in the United State, Mr. Peter Odighizuwa was Thursday in Virginia USA, arraigned with the murder of three persons and injuring others. According to reports Thursday, said Odighizuwa, 43, had on Wednesday killed the dean, a professor and a student of a private law school in Virginia from where he was dismissed a day earlier for poor academic performance. A day following his dismissal, Odighizuwa returned to the Appalachian School of Law and met with the Dean L Anthony Sutin in.http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/19#069 The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, Australia)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) A FAILED law student accused of killing his dean, a law professor and another student in Richmond, Virginia, told a judge yesterday that he is sick and needs help. Peter Odighizuwa shuffled into court in leg chains, surrounded by police officers. Hiding his face behind his arrest warrant, he told Judge Patrick Johnson: &8220;I was supposed to see my doctor. He was supposed to help me out &8230; I don&8217;t have my medication.&8221; Odighizuwa, a 43-year-old naturalised US citizen from Nigeria,.http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/19#068 Charleston Gazette (West Virginia)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) APPALACHIAN School of Law - a small, new Virginia institution designed to train lawyers to relieve a shortage in mountain communities - contained several West Virginia students. It also contained a Nigerian immigrant who couldn&8217;t pass the stringent courses. After he flunked out a second time, the bitter man returned to the school with a .380 pistol. He killed the dean and a professor in their offices, then opened fire on students in a common area. A female student was killed, and three...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/19#067 The Asheville Citizen-Times- (Found June 19, 2008 ) Area officer helps wrestle law school gunman to ground It wasn&8217;t until Tracy Bridges saw his fellow students grieving at the tiny law school in Virginia that he stopped being a cop and became one of the victims. &8220;After all that had happened, we went outside and I saw the students in the lobby,&8221; he said. &8220;I knew their faces. It kind of kicked in that I&8217;m just a student here as well.&8221; Bridges is a reserve Buncombe County sheriff&8217;s deputy and a third-year law...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/19#063 The Advertiser- (Found June 19, 2008 ) NEW YORK: A failed law student killed two professors then shot dead a student at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia. Three other students, also shot, are in a critical condition. Nigerian foreign exchange student Peter Odighizuma, 43, was disarmed of his .38-calibre automatic pistol by four other students.http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#077 The Advertiser- (Found June 19, 2008 ) NEW YORK: A failed law student killed two professors then shot dead a student at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia. Three other students, also shot, are in a critical condition. Nigerian foreign exchange student Peter Odighizuma, 43, was disarmed of his automatic pistol by four other students.http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#078 Africa News- (Found June 19, 2008 ) A Nigerian student angry at being dismissed stormed through the campus of the Appalachian School of Law yesterday with a handgun, killing the dean, a professor and a student and wounding three others before he was tackled by fellow students, the Virginia state police reported. &8220;Come get me, come get me,&8221; the gunman was heard saying as terrorized witnesses ran for their lives, the New York Times reported &8220;He was a time bomb waiting to go off,&8221; Dr. Jack Briggs, a county...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#079 Associated Press Worldstream- (Found June 19, 2008 ) A man shot his ex-girlfriend to death Friday at the community college she attended, then killed himself, authorities said. Moriah Ann Pierce, 20, was studying to become an elementary school teacher, according to a statement from Broward Community College, southwest of Fort Lauderdale. Michael Holness, 23, shot her, then himself, because of a domestic dispute, police Lt. Gary Killam said. Several students witnessed the late-morning shooting, but no one else was injured. &8220;I turned around and.http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#090 Associated Press Online- (Found June 19, 2008 ) A man shot his ex-girlfriend to death Friday at the community college she attended, then killed himself, authorities said. Moriah Ann Pierce, 20, was studying to become an elementary school teacher, according to a statement from Broward Community College, southwest of Fort Lauderdale. Michael Holness, 23, of Miramar, shot her, then himself, because of a domestic dispute, police Lt. Gary Killam said. Several students witnessed the late-morning shooting, but no one else was injured. &8220;I...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#088 |