GUILTY IN - Andrew Boldt, 21, brutally murdered on Purdue campus, 21 Jan 2014

Police have a person in custody following a reported shooting at Purdue University in Indiana.

Television footage from the scene shows a fire truck and several law enforcement vehicles around the building. The building is in the middle of campus and across from the administration building housing President Mitch Daniels' office.

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Confirmed one person has been shot and one is in custody on PU campus.

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Cherry said:

It is being said that this victim was targeted, it sounds like domestic abuse?

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A suspect identified as Cody Cousins, 23, was booked into Tippecanoe County Jail at 5:15 p.m. and was being held without bond in connection with the homicide, jail officials said.

Purdue Provost Timothy Sands confirmed one fatality resulted from the shooting. The victim was identified as a male. During a 2:30 p.m. news conference, officials released no identity, saying that would be up to the Tippecanoe County Coroner.

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Victim is Andrew F. Boldt of Wisconsin. Senior in college. Age of 21.

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Tippecanoe County officials have released this mugshot of Cody Cousins, suspect in Purdue shooting.

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Officers from multiple agencies stormed the apartment building and executed a search warrant in Apartment 2, where Cousins lived. What they took was not clear. The street was sealed off at each end during the search.

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For most of his Purdue career, Matyasovski has lived an arm's length away in Apartment 1.

"I lived next to this guy, and I knew Andrew (Boldt) as well. To imagine someone, such a nice guy like that, just gone ... life snatched away by somebody else I knew. It's not something I ever thought I would experience in my life.

"Obviously something was wrong in (Cousins') life. I don't know what ... I didn't see any outward expression of that."

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Court documents released Thursday describe how police found Boldt with gunshot and stab wounds inside Room 067 in the basement of the electrical engineering building, where he was working as a teaching assistant.

Bloody footprints dotted the floor, and a knife and a handgun lay on the ground, along with several spent shell casings.

Andrew Pawling told the Purdue Exponent that he heard "pop" sounds while he was in the lab and turned to see his teaching assistant being killed "point blank."

"As I was turning around I heard another pop, then I saw my (teaching assistant) fall to the floor. The guy got on top of him and then shot him in the face, once or twice and maybe two more times," Pawling said.

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Tom Novak, a senior from Hammond, Ind., lived down the street from Cousins and knew him through mutual friends.

"He was calm and calculating and smart," Novak said. "He wasn't a nice guy. He was rude and argumentative."

Novak recalled that Cousins would often show up at Novak's apartment unnannounced and tried to steer discussions to scientific ideas.

Cousins showed a streak of stubborness and always thought he was right, Novak said. "He was intelligent but he didn't have emotional intelligence," he said. "I feel like he lacked empathy."

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During standard questions from Busch to determine if Cousins qualified for a public defender on May 8, Busch asked if Cousins was under the influence of alcohol or drugs that might impair his ability to answer questions.

Cousins said he was taking a drug to balance out his moods, which was prescribed to him after he arrived at the Tippecanoe County Jail. Asked what ailment the drug treated, Cousins said schizophrenia.

Cousin’s trial current is scheduled to begin Oct. 6.

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A judge has not yet ruled on whether to relocate the murder trial of a man charged with killing a fellow Purdue University student in a campus classroom.

Court records say Tippecanoe County Judge Thomas Busch on Friday appointed experts from an area mental health care agency to examine 23-year-old Cody Cousins, whose lawyer filed a formal insanity defense this week.

But he's taken under advisement defense attorney Kirk Freeman's motion to move the trial because of news coverage in the Lafayette area and attention that was drawn this month when Cousins said he was on medication for schizophrenia.

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INDIANAPOLIS - A court official says the man accused in the fatal shooting and stabbing of a fellow Purdue University student has pleaded guilty to murder.

Cody Cousins, 24, of Warsaw, Ind., entered the plea Thursday during a Tippecanoe County court hearing in Lafayette.

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In an interview with Fox 59, Freeman said a mitigated sentence is likely at the final trial date on Sept. 19.

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Cousins’ final hearing is set for 1:15 p.m. Sept.19 at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse.

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