1 student killed, 3 wounded at Arizona campus during fight

[niyad]

1 student killed, 3 wounded at Arizona campus during fight

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An overnight brawl between two groups of students escalated into violence Friday when a freshman at Northern Arizona University opened fire on four fraternity members, killing one and wounding three.


Students embrace outside a hospital emergency room in Flagstaff, Ariz., on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015, after an early morning fight between two groups of college students escalated into gunfire, leaving one person dead and three others wounded, authorities said. The shooting occurred outside a dormitory near the Northern Arizona University campus. (Jake Bacon/Arizona Daily Sun via AP)
October 09, 2015

Steven Jones, an 18-year-old fraternity pledge, told police he shot the group of students only after they hit him in the face and chased him, according to court documents. He also said he tried to administer first aid to one of the victims.

Prosecutors said the suspect's account amounted to a "self-serving" statement and alleged Jones was the aggressor. "There is no indication of self-defense here," Deputy County Attorney Ammon Barker said. "The defendant had retreated from the fight, he obtained a gun and then he went back into the fray."

The shooting occurred in a parking lot just outside Mountain View Hall dormitory on the Flagstaff campus, which provides housing for many of the campus' sororities and fraternities. The victims were all members of the Delta Chi fraternity while Jones was a pledge at Sigma Chi. It's not clear why the fight started.
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Student Colin Brough was killed, and Nicholas Prato, Kyle Zientek and Nicholas Piring were wounded. The prosecutor said Brough was hit twice — in the chest and shoulder — with Jones' .40-caliber handgun. Flagstaff Medical Center said it couldn't release any information on conditions.

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[Fred Sanders]

1. .40 caliber handgun tucked away among the textbooks and beer cans....insanity begets insanity.

[ryan_cats]

3. Insanity indeed

Insanity indeed. Because a .380 is much easier to conceal.

[Anansi1171]

4. You are too clever by half!

You must know alot about guns!!!!

[Fred Sanders]

5. Maybe he will show us some of his guns and his useful gun knowledge...that would be awesome.,

[Hoyt]

2. Can't wait for our resident Flagstaff gunner to explain why he didn't stop the shooting.

[niyad]

6. so true.

[Punkingal]

7. Yeah....

Surprisingly quiet on these threads.

[Lizzie Poppet]

8. Gee, I dunno...maybe because they don't hang out around drunken fratboys...

...at 1:30 in the morning.

[Hoyt]

9. To hear them tell it, their gunz have stopped crime. Of course, their promotion of gunz allows

those frat boys to legally carry weapons on campus.

[Eleanors38]

11. Would you have wanted him/her to, or not?

[Hoyt]

12. Odds are any cowboy in that situation would have shot some innocent people.

Not unlike this cowboy:

"Police looking for vigilante carjacking witness who shot at thieves but accidentally hit victim in the head before fleeing the scene. A man was carjacked at a Valero gas station in north Houston, Texas on Saturday at approximately 11:15pm. A witness who saw the theft as it happened pulled out his gun and shot at the suspects as they tried to get away. The witness accidentally hit the victim in the head; the man is in stable condition at a nearby hospital. After the shooting, the witness picked up his gun shell casings and left the scene without waiting for police to arrive.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3252074/Police-looking-vigilante-carjacking-witness-shot-thieves-accidentally-hit-victim-head-fleeing-scene.html#ixzz3oC0i3ZnA
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[Eleanors38]

15. I expect our "fair and balanced" MSM to report the hordes of incidents.

[Monk06]

10. Guns allowed on campus as predicted, will be used to settle scores and drunken arguments

and getting the prof to bring up that mid term score a couple of points

[Initech]

13. I dunno, this one sounds like it was self defense more than anything.

If you look at both sides it sounds like the shooter was trying to defend himself from the attackers. I'm not defending use of firearms in any situation but it sounds like the frat guys were the instigators.

[Ptah]

14. Did you read this paragraph from the OP?

Prosecutors said the suspect's account amounted to a "self-serving" statement and alleged Jones was the aggressor. "There is no indication of self-defense here," Deputy County Attorney Ammon Barker said. "The defendant had retreated from the fight, he obtained a gun and then he went back into the fray."