TX - Brent Randall, 18, dead, brother injured in TSU shooting, Houston, 9 Oct 2015

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http://abc13.com/news/texas-souther...-campus-on-lockdown-classes-canceled/1025113/

"HOUSTON (KTRK) --
One person is dead after a shooting at Texas Southern University. The southeast Houston campus remains on lockdown. Houston police say a possible suspect is in custody.


We're hearing from Houston police that two people may have been shot in the 3500 block of Blodgett Street near Canfield around 11:30am. The shooting happened at the Tierwester Oaks section of the University Courtyard Apartment Complex. The apartment complex is owned by TSU and is on campus property.

University spokesman Kendrick Callis said the campus is on lockdown and classes have been canceled".
 
IMO one of the biggest problems now a days is people don't know how to cope. Killing is not the answer to anything. Between shootings lately and suicides we need to raise our children to handle things. All JMO
 
Not exactly the same as a school shooting on campus with students trapped in classrooms.
 
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/0...er-2-reportedly-shot-on-campus-gunman-sought/

"The incident occurred just hours after another shooting near the same housing complex. The university said in a statement posted on its website that the earlier shooting occurred early Friday morning, and that the school was increasing police presence on campus. No other details were immediately available and it's not clear if the shootings are linked."
 
The latest..

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/texas-college-lockdown-shooter-loose-shooting-34374076

" 2:25 p.m.

Officials say a student was killed during a shooting outside a Texas Southern University student housing complex, and that two people have been detained for questioning.

University President John Rudley says the student was a freshman at the school. The student's name, age and gender haven't been released.

Houston police spokeswoman Jodi Silva says the other person who was shot is hospitalized in stable condition. That person's name and condition also haven't been released.

Silva says the shooting happened in a parking lot outside the University Courtyard Apartments, which is on the edge of the school's Houston campus. She says two people have now been detained, but that a motive remains unclear. She says a third person is being sought for questioning, but that there is no active shooting investigation.

Rudley says the school is no longer on lockdown and classes will resume Monday."
rbbm
 
Not exactly the same as a school shooting on campus with students trapped in classrooms.

Depends on how you define school shooting. Is a shooting on campus involving students not a school shooting? IMO (though I might be in the minority) a school shooting is a school shooting. Method, shooter, motive... that's all secondary. I would even say Kent State was a school shooting, in its own category, but still on the list. Though there's no need to define it as one because everyone knows the story.

JMO.
 
IMO one of the biggest problems now a days is people don't know how to cope. Killing is not the answer to anything. Between shootings lately and suicides we need to raise our children to handle things. All JMO

ITA. Too many parents enable and mollycoddle their children, never making them take responsibility for or suffer consequences for their mistakes. Their kid never does anything wrong, and someone else is always to blame. When something does go wrong, and mom/dad aren't immediately available to bail them out, these kids don't know how to handle the situation maturely because they're accustomed to mom and dad getting them out of uncomfortable situations. :moo:
 
Or they learn to use a gun because it is our right as Americans.
 
ITA. Too many parents enable and mollycoddle their children, never making them take responsibility for or suffer consequences for their mistakes. Their kid never does anything wrong, and someone else is always to blame. When something does go wrong, and mom/dad aren't immediately available to bail them out, these kids don't know how to handle the situation maturely because they're accustomed to mom and dad getting them out of uncomfortable situations. :moo:

Yes THIS
 
This is so sad. The people committing these crimes must feel so weak and inadequate.
 
Or they learn to use a gun because it is our right as Americans.
People need to teach their kids to stand up for themselves and others. Teach them how to do that without a gun first.
 
Seems to me the media, in this case, is trying to lead readers to the unfair conclusion that this incident should be in the same category as that of Columbine. Especially if the reader only skims the headlines.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/us/campus-shootings-texas-arizona.html
rbbm. Lengthy article.

"HOUSTON — Two students were killed in separate shootings Friday on college campuses in Texas and Arizona, rattling the nerves of students, teachers and parents eight days after a rampage left 10 people dead at Umpqua Community College in Oregon.

Unlike the attack in Oregon and other mass shootings at colleges and schools in recent years, the two on Friday were not so-called active-shooter episodes, but instead appeared to stem from ordinary disputes and altercations that quickly turned violent".

Snip>

"Whether campuses are more or less safe over all than they were years ago is unclear, said Mr. Carter, director of the foundation’s 32 National Campus Safety Initiative. Experts agree, however, that schools and law enforcement have become better at reacting to “active shooter” episodes. Police officers find and confront gunmen faster, and schools are quicker to send out emergency alerts, put campuses on lockdown and advise people to hunker down.

Officials at Texas Southern University called for a campuswide lockdown quickly, after it appeared that a possible suspect had escaped through the apartment complex."
 
Seems to me the media, in this case, is trying to lead readers to the unfair conclusion that this incident should be in the same category as that of Columbine. Especially if the reader only skims the headlines.

Yes. Not so exciting as a mass shooter. How many does one have to kiill to get in that category? And of course the kids killed in these shootings don't deserve a vigil,

Just an ordinary boring killing
 

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