Appalachian School of Law ShootingsNews Stories in the week after the Appalachian School of Law ShootingsThe Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) A former law student accused of killing his dean, a law professor and another student told a judge as well as bystanders yesterday that he is sick and needs help. Peter Odighizuwa shuffled into Buchanan County general district court in leg chains, surrounded by police officers. 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 called.http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#125 The Record (Bergen County, NJ)- (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 . . . I don&8217;t..http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#126 St. Petersburg Times (Florida)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) The expelled law school student accused of killing his dean and two others told a judge that he is sick and needs help. At Thursday&8217;s arraignment on three counts of capital murder, Peter Odighizuwa, 43, hid his face behind a green arrest warrant. &8220;I was supposed to see my doctor,&8221; Odighizuwa said. &8220;He was supposed to help me out. . . . I don&8217;t have my medication.&8221; Police say Odighizuwa opened fire with a handgun at the Appalachian School of Law on Wednesday, a day.http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#140 Townsville BulletinTownsville Sun (Australia)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) GRUNDY, Virginia&8212;A student who had been dismissed from law school went on a campus shooting spree, killing the dean, a professor and a student before he was tackled by students, authorities said. The attack on Wednesday also wounded three female students at the Appalachian School of Law. They were hospitalised in a fair condition. &8220;When I arrived there were bodies lying everywhere,&8221; said Dr Jack Briggs, one of the first to arrive after the shooting. Dean Anthony Sutin and...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#141 Good Morning America (7:00 AM ET) - ABC- (Found June 19, 2008 ) ANTONIO MORA, anchor: A small Virginia law school is still reeling from a deadly shooting rampage allegedly carried out by a student furious at being thrown out. Police say the man stormed on the campus of Appalachia Law School and killed his dean, a professor and a student. ABC&8217;s Steve Osunsami is in Grundy, Virginia, this morning. Good morning, Steve. STEVE OSUNSAMI reporting: Good morning, Antonio. A memorial service will be held today at noon for the people who died yesterday....http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/17#155 Agence France Presse- (Found June 19, 2008 ) Three people were killed and three others wounded when a foreign-born student, apparently angry over bad grades, opened fire at a law school in southwestern Virginia, a state official said. The shooter was in police custody after being apprehended by other students at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia after the incident Wednesday afternoon. Confirming the number of victims, a spokeswoman for the governor of Virginia said school dean Anthony Sutin was killed along with a...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/17#156 Agence France Presse- (Found June 19, 2008 ) A Nigerian law student charged with shooting three others to death in Grundy, Virginia was apparently unhappy that he had been placed on academic suspension, a police source said Thursday. Police say Peter Odighizuwa, 42, went on a shooting spree Wednesday that wounded three others at Appalachian Law School in Grundy, Virginia. &8220;(He was) apparently angered at his academic suspension,&8221; according to a source at the Buchanan County Sheriff Department in the western part of the...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/17#157 Akron Beacon Journal (Ohio)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) A failing student allegedly shot three people to death and wounded three more yesterday at the Appalachian School of Law in western Virginia. The midday attack ended when students overpowered the gunman and held him for sheriff&8217;s deputies, officials said. Dean L. Anthony Sutin and Professor Thomas Blackwell were gunned down in their offices, according to school officials. Police said the third person slain was student Angela Dales, 33.http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/17#158 The Associated Press- (Found June 19, 2008 ) A student who had been dismissed from law school went on a campus shooting spree Wednesday, killing the dean, a professor and a student before he was tackled, authorities said. The attack also wounded three female students at the Appalachian School of Law. They were hospitalized 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 this tiny mountain community in western Virginia. Dean L....http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/17#160 The Associated Press- (Found June 19, 2008 ) Tracy Bridges didn&8217;t have much time to think when he saw Peter Odighizuwa on the front lawn of the Appalachian School of Law moments after he allegedly went on a killing spree. &8220;I just reacted,&8221; said Bridges, a student and sheriff&8217;s deputy who tackled Odighizuwa with classmates Todd Ross and Ted Besen after the Wednesday shootings. The three men pinned Odighizuwa to the ground, and Bridges handcuffed the man&8217;s arms behind his back. Odighizuwa, 42, a former student who..http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/17#162 |