Appalachian School of Law ShootingsNews Stories in the week after the Appalachian School of Law ShootingsONASA News Agency- (Found June 19, 2008 ) SARAJEVO, Jan 17 (ONASA) - A struggling student shot three people dead at a law school in the American state of Virginia, before being wrestled to the ground by fellow students. The victims included the dean, a faculty member and a student of the Appalachian School of Law in the town of Grundy. Three other people were critically wounded, BBC reported. The suspected gunman was identified as Nigerian Peter Odighizuwa, 42, who had been suspended from college earlier in the day. Governor Mark...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/17#229 Newsletter- (Found June 19, 2008 ) FOUR students overpowered a gunman who went on a shooting spree at their US college last night, killing three people in what a doctor described as &8221;executions&8221;. The four students tackled the man while he was still armed with a .380 semi-automatic pistol and managed to hold him until police arrived at the Appalachian School of Law, in Grundy, Virginia. He had already shot and killed three people, including the dean of the college and one of the professors, and left three other students.http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/17#228 The Jerusalem Post- (Found June 19, 2008 ) Burg ready to speak to PA body in Ramallah Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg yesterday welcomed an invitation to address the Palestinian Legislative Assembly in Ramallah. Burg said, however, he is waiting for a formal invitation for him and a Knesset delegation to meet with the Palestinian lawmakers. &8220;Every opportunity must be exploited to open dialogue and end the cycle of violence,&8221; Burg said from the US, after he learned of the invitation from broadcast on Israel Radio. Nina Gilbert...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/17#214 The Associated Press State & Local Wire- (Found June 19, 2008 ) An AP Opinion Exchange Delta Democrat Times While working at my desk on Wednesday, I turned around to take a peek at the television and saw a very familiar name come flashing across the screen. I looked closer, and staring me back in the face were the words &8220;school shooting.&8221; But this particular act of aggression struck close to home. The phenomenon of school shootings became all too real for me when I saw on the national news, &8220;School shooting in Grundy, Va.&8221; The shooting.http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/17#265 Richmond Times Dispatch (Virginia)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) The wife of law professor Thomas F. Blackwell described her husband as generous, loving and firmly grounded in his Christian faith. Blackwell, 41, was one of three people killed in a shooting rampage at Appalachian School of Law on Wednesday afternoon. The school&8217;s dean, L. Anthony Sutin, 42, and first-year student Angela Dales, 33, also were killed. A member of Blackwell&8217;s church said she was on the phone with him during the gunfire. Charlotte Varney, the church secretary, said...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#129 Roanoke Times & World News (Roanoke, VA)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) Hundreds of people turned out Thursday to honor three people killed a day earlier in a shooting spree at the Appalachian School of Law. Tragedies at Columbine High School, Oklahoma City and the World Trade Center seemed far from this coalfield community, said the Rev. Stan Parris. &8220;But now we, too, have tasted violence. . . . This is a terrible reminder of the reality of evil that exists in the human heart.&8221; The sanctuary and balcony of Grundy Baptist Church overflowed with faculty...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#130 Roanoke Times & World News (Roanoke, VA)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) A Roanoke woman who was injured in the shooting rampage at Appalachian Law School Wednesday only decided to attend law school about a year ago, after years of working as a respiratory therapist, said a close family friend. Rebecca Clair Brown, 38, was shot in the abdomen and arm in the downstairs lobby of Grundy&8217;s Appalachian School of Law. After surgery, the first-year law student was listed in fair condition at Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center in Kingsport, Tenn. &8220;Out of all...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#133 Roanoke Times & World News (Roanoke, VA)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) FRUSTRATION, alienation and a gun. The same lethal mix that explodes in mass slayings with some regularity in communities across the United States came together Wednesday in Appalachia. It left three people dead and the public with a sense of bewildered loss dismaying in its familiarity. Here is yet another &8220;senseless act of violence&8221; - one that is cause for particular grief in Southwest Virginia. Partly, this is because the shootings at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy were...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#134 Roanoke Times & World News (Roanoke, VA)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) As Peter Odighizuwa was led to court Thursday, handcuffed and hunched over, someone in a throng of reporters shouted, &8220;Peter, why&8217;d you do it&8221; &8220;I was sick; I was sick,&8221; Odighizuwa replied. &8220;I need help.&8221; A few minutes later, as the 43-year-old was arraigned on charges that he killed three people and wounded three more in a shooting spree at the Appalachian School of Law, he told Judge Patrick Johnson that he had not seen his doctor or received his medication...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#135 Saint Paul Pioneer Press (Minnesota)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) SMALLPOX VIRUS TO BE PRESERVED GENEVA&8212;Acting on fears of bioterrorism, the World Health Organization&8217;s governing body on Thursday reversed a long-standing order for the destruction of all smallpox virus stocks and recommended they be retained for research into new vaccines or treatments. The U.N. health agency&8217;s 32-member Executive Board endorsed a recommendation by WHO Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland to drop a 2002 deadline for destroying the virus, held at top security...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#136 |