Police say one person is dead and another is in custody after a shooting took place on Purdue University’s campus in Indiana Tuesday afternoon.
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1 of 3. Officers survey the scene of a shooting at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, January 21, 2014.
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(Reuters) – One person was shot to death on the campus of Indiana’s Purdue University on Tuesday, and a male suspect was in custody, authorities said.
The shooting took place around noon local time (1800 GMT) in a basement classroom of the university’s electrical engineering building. The shooter seemed to have had only the victim as his intended target, leaving the building immediately after the shooting, said Purdue University Police Chief John Cox.
“It’s just a tragic situation,” Cox said, adding that the shooter was taken into custody without a struggle.
The police, however, did not identify either the victim or the shooter.
University officials said classes had resumed and the campus was considered safe, though the electrical engineering building remained closed.
Upon hearing of the shooting, campus officials immediately ordered students, faculty and staff across campus to take shelter as police searched the area.
School officials said they were make counseling available for students.
Indiana Governor Mike Pence called the shooting a “tragedy.”
“Our heartfelt condolences go out to the family of the victim and to everyone in the Purdue community,” Pence said in a statement, pledging state law enforcement assistance in the investigation.
The frequency of shootings at schools and universities in the United States is fueling the national debate over gun control. On Monday night, a student was shot and critically wounded outside an athletic center at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
Last week alone, two students were shot at a high school in Philadelphia, another was shot at a high school in Albany, New York, and two students were shot at a middle school in New Mexico.
Gun ownership laws in the United States have come under intense scrutiny since December 2012, when 20 young children and six educators were shot dead by a long gunman at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut.
(Reporting by Carey Gillam in Kansas City, Chris Francescani and Marina Lopes in New York and David Bailey in Minneapolis; editing by Scott Malone, G Crosse)
(CNN) – [Breaking news update, posted at 2:42 p.m. ET]
One person was killed in Tuesday’s shooting at an electrical engineering building at Purdue University, campus police Chief John Cox told reporters.
[Earlier version, posted at 2:02 p.m. ET]
Shooting reported at Purdue University
(CNN) — A suspect was in custody after a reported shooting on the campus of Purdue University, a spokeswoman for the Indiana school said Tuesday afternoon.
The shooting was reported around noon ET at an electrical engineering building on the northeast side of the West Lafayette campus, Purdue spokeswoman Liz Evans told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
Police told school officials that one person was in custody Tuesday afternoon, said Evans, who added that she didn’t know whether anyone was injured.
The school sent text messages to students about the shooting report, asking them to take shelter where they were. That request was lifted by 1:30 p.m., though the electrical engineering building still was closed so police could investigate, Evans said.
“The rest of campus is open” and classes were under way, Evans said.
A Purdue student, Brad Glusvewski, told CNN that the university warned students of the reported shooting by text message around 12:20 p.m. ET. Glusvewski, 24, said he and about 15 other people were staying inside the on-campus building where they were when they heard the report.
The university had more than 30,000 undergraduate students last school year.
CNN first learned about the shooting report on Twitter.
CNN’s Deanna Hackney and Shawn Nottingham contributed to this report.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/21/justice/purdue-shooting-report/
(Newser) – One person is in custody following a reported shooting at Purdue University, the school announced today. The shooting reportedly occurred in the school’s electrical engineering building, which has since been cleared by police. A text went out to students urging them to shelter in place, RTV 6 reports. As of this writing, that advisory is still in place. Two students told the Journal & Courier that they heard two shots ring out, and saw someone with blood on his hands. So far there’s no word on casualties. For a selection of relevant Twitter updates, check out Fox 59.
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