Appalachian School of Law ShootingsNews Stories in the week after the Appalachian School of Law ShootingsRichmond Times Dispatch (Virginia)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) Two of the three students wounded last week in a shooting at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy have been discharged from the hospital. Rebecca Claire Brown, 38, of Roanoke, and Martha Madeline Short, 37, of Grundy, were released from Holston Valley Medical Center in Kingsport, Tenn., on Sunday, a hospital spokeswoman said yesterday. The third wounded student, Stacey Beans, 22, of Paducah, Ky., remains at Bristol Regional Medical Center in fair condition, according to hospital...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/22#018 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) WASHINGTON&8212;The Federal Trade Commission plans to propose today new rules for reducing the annoyance of unwanted telephone solicitations as it begins to push for the establishment of a national &8220;do-not-call&8221; registry. With a registry, people could make a single call to get their names removed from many telemarketing lists. The agency is also expected to propose that telemarketers be barred from blocking any identifying information from caller-ID equipment so people could know who..http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/22#017 Newsday (New York)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) Wounded Students Improve Two students wounded last week in a shooting rampage at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Va., have been released from a hospital. Rebecca Brown, 38, and Martha Madeline Short, 37, were discharged Sunday from Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center in Kingsport, Tenn., said hospital spokeswoman Amy Stevens. A third student, Stacey Beans, 22, was upgraded from fair to good condition. The school&8217;s dean, L. Anthony Sutin, Professor Thomas Blackwell and student..http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/22#015 Akron Beacon Journal (Ohio)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) Two students wounded in a shooting rampage at the Appalachian School of Law last week have been released from a hospital and a third student was upgraded from fair to good condition. The school&8217;s dean, L. Anthony Sutin, Professor Thomas Blackwell and student Angela Dales, 33, were slain in the spree. Former student Peter Odighizuwa, 43, has been charged in the attack. Police said he recently flunked out.http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/22#001 The Associated Press State & Local Wire- (Found June 19, 2008 ) The man accused of killing three people and wounding three others at a Virginia law school last week was remembered as quiet and mannerly by neighbors at the apartment complex where he lived for four years. Peter Odighizuwa, 43, graduated in 1999 with a degree in mathematics from Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, university spokesman Jim Cleveland said. He moved to Virginia in 2000 to attend the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Va. Police said Odighizuwa shot and killed the...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/20#061 Lexington Herald Leader (Kentucky)- June 19, 2008 BEREA&8212;Encouraging news yesterday about the condition of a Kentucky woman who was injured in a law-school shooting spree produced widespread relief at Berea College. Doctors said Stacey Beans, a Paducah native who graduated from Berea last year, is expected to make a full recovery after being shot Wednesday at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Va. &8220;I&8217;m hoping she will be able put this behind her,&8221; said Thomas Bosch, an assistant professor of German at Berea. &8220;She..http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#116 Daily Record- (Found June 19, 2008 ) THE law student accused of killing his dean, his professor and a classmate appeared in court yesterday, and announced: &8220;I&8217;m sick and I need help.&8221; Peter Odighizuwa shuffled into a district court in Grundy, Virginia, in leg chains, surrounded by police officers. Hiding his face behind his 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; As he was led in, he told...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#100 The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)- (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#099 Christian Science Monitor (Boston, MA)- (Found June 19, 2008 ) The Appalachian School of Law is not a typical &8220;sink or swim&8221; campus, but a place where the philosophy is to give second - even third - chances. That&8217;s why the school, set in rural Grundy, Va., let Peter Odighizuwa return for a second year, after failing his first. It&8217;s also why the faculty got together to buy him a car, after his was totaled in an accident, and helped his children get into a local private school. Though many in the close-knit academic community seemed...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#098 Chicago Tribune- (Found June 19, 2008 ) Townspeople watched in shock and grief Thursday as the law student known on campus as Peter O. was led into the Buchanan County courtroom, shuffling in chains and hiding his face from cameras, to face murder charges in this remote Appalachian coal town. Peter Odighizuwa looked at the floor as he was accused of assaulting his colleagues at the 5-year-old Appalachian School of Law and murdering the founding dean, a second faculty member and a student caught in the handgun rampage. Three other...http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/appalachian/2002/01/18#097 |