Suspected Active Shooter In Custody At Mississippi State University, Lockdown To Be Lifted At 2
Source: TPM
A suspected shooter at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Miss., is in custody.
The campus lockdown will be lifted at 2 p.m., according to the university.
The suspect was seen at two campus buildings, Lee Hall and Carpenter Hall, before being apprehended.
No injuries were reported, per the University's Twitter feed.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mississippi-state-active-shooter
Contemporaneous tweets at link.
My dad teaches there.
I spent the past 15 minutes frantically dialing him.
We've got to do better, people.
niyad
(113,344 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,918 posts)Why is it family and innocent people must always pay the price in tears and pain for the misguided sense of entitlement called "rights" by ammosexuals?
Someone else always pays the price other than the gun seller and the gun owner.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)The university tweted that no shots had been fired:
It said there was "no report at this time of any shots that have been fired" and that no injuries had immediately been reported.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/27/us-usa-mississippi-shooting-idUSKCN0QW20Z20150827
Recursion
(56,582 posts)But stress makes things very confusing
short circuit
(145 posts)But we've got guns placed on the hands of the mentally ill. People needs to do a better job of deep background checks or interpret the 2nd Amendment differently.