Police: Calif. College Student Shoots 3
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May 8, 11:34 AM (ET)

By GARANCE BURKE

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - A college student opened fire in an apartment complex next to a university campus, killing one person and wounding two others, police said Tuesday.

Members of a police SWAT team were communicating by cell phone Tuesday morning with the suspect, trying to get him to surrender, police spokesman Jeff Cardinale said.

Cardinale identified the suspect as Jonquel Brooks, 19, of Hayward.

Police said the shooting followed an altercation at the apartment, according to officials at California State University, Fresno. Residents of the apartment complex, across a street from the university's Bulldog Stadium, were evacuated to the campus cafeteria, said Fresno State spokeswoman Shirley Armbruster.

The university remained open for classes.

"The Fresno police said there was no danger to the campus because they had the suspect in the complex and we felt it was safe to have classes today," Armbruster said.

The university sent a notice to students, faculty and staff Tuesday morning and posted an alert for them on the school's Web site.

The owner of the apartment complex, American Campus Communities (ACC) of Austin, Texas, also sent an e-mail to residents early Tuesday telling them about the shooting and warning them to be cautious, said company spokeswoman Gina Cowart.

The two people wounded did not have life-threatening injuries, authorities said.

This sucks....again....and will continue sucking for the coming countless times this will happen in the future.


Headlines for April 9th, 2053

Plasma rounds blasted through walls at the local University today disrupting a vat grown butchering class......

Why is it that gun crimes impugn all gun owners, but McVeigh didn't make all chemists outlaws? A gun is a tool for good or for evil-- who stands behind it determines which one.

That is too logical for the sheeple to comprehend.

Apparantly the shooting was over a Playstation 2.



I can hear it now...."SEE! Video games do make kids violent!!"

What happened to being responsible for your own actions?