Purdue shooting suspect surrenders after allegedly killing fellow student

[CreekDog]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- A gunman shot and killed another man Tuesday inside Purdue University's electrical engineering building, spurring worried students to scramble into the bitter cold outside for safety.

The Indiana school's police chief said that the suspect appeared to have had just one target in mind. He left the building right after the shooting, and a city police officer arrested him.

"This appears to be an isolated and intentional act," Purdue Police Chief John Cox said. "...The victim appeared to have been targeted by the suspect, and it was no more and no less than that."

...

Cox identified the victim as Andrew Boldt, a 21-year-old student and teaching assistant and the suspect as Cody Cousins, a 23-year-old student.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/21/justice/purdue-shooting-report/

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(no comment, except thank you to Will Pitt for the heads-up)

[shenmue]

1. Mercy

[NYC_SKP]

2. Good LBN post, CreekDog, and thanks WillPitt!

Last edited Thu Jan 23, 2014, 12:11 AM - Edit history (1)

I think this is a pretty significant development and of national interest.

I have friends and family who are alumni.

We don't ordinarily equate university affairs with violence; quite the opposite.

Thanks to William Rivers Pitt, too, for bringing this to your attention, CD.

Good post. Recommended.

[CreekDog]

10. .

NYC_SKP (57,014 posts)
15. Do it.

I'm serious. I'll help.

If you can't beat them, join them.

I am serious. I think they will get tired of it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1172&pid=135726

i don't like games.

[NealK]

14. "I have friends and family who are alumnus."

Alumnus and alumna both come from Latin and preserve Latin plurals. Alumnus is a masculine noun whose plural is alumni. You're welcome.

[NealK]

22. Rainbow thing?

You have a problem with the rainbow flag?

[Starry Messenger]

16. Virginia Tech Massacre was just in 2007.

Lots of other university shootings.

[valerief]

3. Cuz there haven't been enough shootings this year. nt

[Historic NY]

4. links to victim & suspect.

http://www.heavy.com/news/2014/01/rip-andrew-boldt-purdue-university-shooting-victim/

http://www.heavy.com/news/2014/01/cody-cousins-purdue-shooting-suspect-shooter/

[legcramp]

11. Man, is that one downer of a news site.

eom

[llmart]

6. I was looking for a thread about this shooting....

earlier but saw that for some reason the mods didn't think it rose to the level of LBN stating that it wasn't of national interest. Hmmm....And yet it was reported on by Brian Williams on NBC News tonight.

It is of great interest to those of us who work on university campuses and who feel our (my) campus could be next. We try to prepare for and understand these incidents in the event that we'll have to deal with it someday, which isn't that unlikely any more, sadly.

[CreekDog]

7. it stayed locked even after the hosts realized the victim died because a host actually argued...

finding that new information isn't enough to unlock the thread because when it was locked, the hosts didn't know the victim had died.

you see, the victim died too slowly.

thank you.

[llmart]

12. I just couldn't believe that on DU......

the rationale for locking a thread about a university shooting death isn't newsworthy enough because it's all too common.

Well, then, I guess there won't be any more threads about dishonest politicians then because it's all too common also.

[Thor_MN]

13. I'd say that the victim died in a fly over state.

Now if the shooting had occurred on one of the coasts, it would have been LBN with no doubts.

[LeftyMom]

17. No, the problem is that the gun trolls are gaming the system by alerting on inconvenient news

and some of the hosts are part of that effort.

It's not a geographic thing at all, it's a please don't talk about the guns unless you talk about them nicely thing.

[Thor_MN]

18. There may be gun trolls alerting, but there is most certainly a geographic component

Threads get locked for being local news if they occur in the middle of the country while equivalent threads that are about the coasts are left alone. It hard to imagine something more local than weather articles. If the East coast gets a dusting of snow, there will be numerous articles that are left alone. If the Midwest gets a foot of snow, anything posted will be locked as local news.

The same happens if something occurs within state legislatures. On the coasts, big news. "Fly-over" country, welcome to locked thread land.

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. Well, no; this started with a shooting at an east coast university, which we locked

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014703728
and then someone posted another thread on that, and we locked that too:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014703908
and someone also posted a similar story about Purdue - 1 shooter, 1 victim, who, at that point, had just been taken to hospital, and so the story was extremely similar to the east coast one we had locked:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014703968
Then the Purdue victim died, and a new thread reported that:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014704102
We then locked both Purdue threads, because murders of individuals by gun are, sadly, common in the US - about 30 a day, and typically, no-one starts threads about each case in LBN, unless there's something like the victim being a child. Then this thread was started. It seems clear that DUers consider a death at a university to be a special case (despite 18 to 21 being the most common age for victims of murder).

So, this is not 'geographic'; an east coast university shooting was locked first, and no-one has found that unusual.

[WilliamPitt]

20. "an east coast university shooting was locked first, and no-one has found that unusual."

I did.

[Thor_MN]

21. One can deny all they want, but the DU moderators have a geographic slant towards the coasts

I have seen numerous times that news about the Midwest gets locked while comparable articles occurring on the coasts are left alone.

[kjones]

23. As a fellow Midwesterner, I agree to a degree.

Though there are some outliers if you filter US by state (Wisconsin, 10,500 or so posts).

News seems to generally get a bit more favor as long as it's not from the Midwest or South though.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

8. Cue Gundamenralists saying it wasn't the gun in 5. . .4. . .3. . .2. . .1. . .

[FarPoint]

9. Crap...another gun-nut from my county makes national news!

The shooter is from Centerville, Ohio....Montgomery County....

[Skip Intro]

24. It amazes me how the daily gun-slaughter in inner-cities is avoided here.

And in the media.

The vast wealth of gun homicide comes from that single metric, yet it is ignored completely.

You and others can keep up the push, but you will not repeal or invalidate the 2nd Amendment, and you will not decide for me whether I have the means to defend my family, myself, or my property. Whine and cry and make all the bogus arguments you want, and you will fail and fail again. Turns out, the people of the US are not the stupid sheep you so long to herd.