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Just got text from kid.
Edit to add
The incident happened just after 3 p.m. near the intersection of 3rd Ave. West and West Nickerson Street. Police report two victims were at Otto Miller Hall.
SPD says one person was in custody on the SPU campus and that officers and medics were on the scene. SPU officials report the campus was on lockdown and police are still searching campus for any potential additional suspects.
The situation is still fluid and more details will be posted as they become available.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)Seattle police are investigating a shooting at Otto Miller Hall on the Seattle Pacific University Campus.
Officials say there appears to be seven victims. Police say none are fatalities.
Police say they have one person in custody.
A second suspect is being sought. He is described as a white male, wearing a long-sleeve blue shirt wth vertical stripes armed with handgun.
...More... (But not much yet)
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/06/shooting-on-seattle-pacific-campus-2-victims-reported/
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)Appreciate the update
villager
(26,001 posts)What's next -- rage and snarky posts from gun "enthusiasts" after another (futile) call for non-bloodthirsty, common-sense gun regulations!?
World is full of surprises, I tell ya...
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Said this doesn't happen at school's where god is present!
Cleita
(75,480 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)In a somewhat gallows way.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Pretty normal given our lines of work
pnwmom
(108,951 posts)And thanks to that heroic student!
It could have been so much worse.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)redqueen
(115,096 posts)Hope it stays that way.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)villager
(26,001 posts)Just remember that if the old "shock" at such news starts to return...
randys1
(16,286 posts)basis very soon.
It is what gun people want, must be, otherwise they would be like me
SCREAMING to get rid of the god damn GUNS!
Tansy_Gold
(17,845 posts)uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Our COUNTRY is very very sick.
tea and oranges
(396 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)The fact that we can do NOTHING while innocents are killed is beyond surreal.
Tansy_Gold
(17,845 posts)We CHOOSE to do none of them.
That's the tragedy.
WHEN CRABS ROAR
(3,813 posts)I know it's true because people keep telling me that.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)shooting began at the Otto Miller Hall, the Math, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, and Science building.
One of the shooters has been taken to Harborview, along with the six other victims.
Witness is saying that the some of the people (who she knows) were running from the back of the building, where senior engineering students were working.
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)Seems to be up to seven shot, one critical.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)the lone shooter was injured and has been transported to Harborview.
Details are now becoming confusing, as usual in an incident such as this.
They're saying that there were actually only four victims...one man and one woman in stable condition, one man and one woman with life-threatening injuries. This reported by Harborview spokesman.
One witness says that she saw a man dead on the floor in the hall. Lying face down in a pool of blood. She's not positive that he was dead, but he was not moving.
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)My kid is at school at SPU, locked down in room. Neighborhood kids attend UCSB, a bit off right now, my kid is fine, but some other families just had their world explode.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)Parents try and ensure that their kids receive a good education, but also have to worry about some fanatic mowing them down, anywhere, anytime. The victims of today's gun violence were apparently engineering students, seniors preparing for graduation.
I'm glad to hear that your child is safe, but as you've stated, other families must now struggle thru an unnecessary tragedy. Fear.
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)Preparing for finals.
Hadn't heard about the engineering students.
The school is a tiny campus in the middle of a neighborhood, just north of Downtown.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)She called in and was giving her account on KOMO. She knew many of the people who were running away from the gunfire, but was not on the same floor when it began (shooting happened on the second floor, she was on the first). Two of the victims were students that she knew well, they tried to give aid to the injured before they were brought downstairs, while swat searched the building. One may have been faculty, but she couldn't see his face.
Harborview is now saying that they're expecting another victim to arrive there and King County Jail seems to be processing a suspect.
All details taken with grain of salt, til the actual report is released. Press conference coming up soon.
I did know SPU fairly well, from years ago when I lived down there; I had a couple of friends who attended and graduated. It was a nice little school back then.
LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)daughter it can happen anywhere, and next time would be somewhere else. Sad to say next time is here already. And, yes, this shit is getting old.
nolabear
(41,928 posts)mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)montanacowboy
(6,078 posts)the injuries must be pretty traumatic since that is the main trauma hospital and is downtown
Michigander_Life
(549 posts)Gunshot wounds are generally traumatic by their very nature.
Another sad example of how we have fallen. Why can't victims of gun violence start filing lawsuits against the gun manufacturers and NRA? It's how we finally toppled big tobacco.
The first billion dollar judgment against the NRA or Glock will go a long way.
JI7
(89,236 posts)because now that would be bad. can you imagine how horrible it would have been if sandy hook and other shootings was because of the taliban guys ?
elias49
(4,259 posts)It'd be pretty hard for any of them to get into the US, don't you think?i
JI7
(89,236 posts)people worrying about something that has little chance of happening while people are being killed everyday already by others with guns and nothing is done about it.
It's time the home grown terrorists who access weapons are reined in.
I get your sarcasm - this shit has to be stopped!
There you have Fox and ReTHUGs frightening people non-stop about the Taliban and Muslims while 'good Xtian white boys' (the vast majority of shooters) are slaughtering people's children on college campuses, in schools, in cinemas, malls, etc. This is madness.
bravenak
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(But the 2nd part of this post that mentioned Sandy Hook is a valid point. But the first point...way over the top.)
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JI7
(89,236 posts)and attention towards those taliban guys and how they could threaten us.
all the while we get these shootings that happen everyday in this country including the mass shootings and nothing is done to try to prevent them.
and i include the media in all of this also .
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I'm more worried about our own home grown killers than the taliban right now.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It is becoming a weekly occurrence in this country. When will our government finally say enough and do something about the gun situation in this society.
hatrack
(59,560 posts)FREEDOM!!
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)herding cats
(19,558 posts)I'm relieved no one has died this time.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)herding cats
(19,558 posts)I wanted to hope this one time everyone would make it alive.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)and they're reporting that she's in surgery right now. Two other young men are said to be in satisfactory condition.
They're speculating that the gunman used a shotgun, but nothing is confirmed. A student monitor disarmed him while he was attempting to reload.
I always want to hope that it will never happen again, but instead, it's becoming an all-too-frequent occurrence.
herding cats
(19,558 posts)Another shooting, a few more dead people, a few dozen peoples lives destroyed, again. Over and over again.
Either there's going to be a breaking point, or people will become numb.
Ilsa
(61,688 posts)Wow. Imagine getting the best of a shooter because he didn't have unlimited continuous firepower like guaranteed in the Constitution!
yewberry
(6,530 posts)LoisB
(7,165 posts)nolabear
(41,928 posts)I can't take much comfort from that but it does make a point.
God, this is terrible. I know people who went there. I hate this. I can't think of anything else to say but that I hate this.
Takket
(21,524 posts)it is so sad to me that this is just an accepted part of american lifestyle now. the mass shooting has simply become part of the culture. we make the shooters famous and they are more than happy to go out in a blaze of glory.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Absolutely horrible. And you know what stopped the bad guy with a gun? A good guy with pepper spray.
One person has died, and another is in critical condition. 2 others are also injured.
nolabear
(41,928 posts)He was tackled by security. God, I am so tired. I've been in that hall and I've been on that campus and I am sick to death of this.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)All of this damn gun violence and these mass shootings are a plague on this nation. You never know when you or someone you know might get gunned down by a lunatic with a gun.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Bravo to the security guard by the way
nolabear
(41,928 posts)And yes, bravo!
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)countryjake
(8,554 posts)A lowly student building-monitor has prevented even more carnage by stepping into the middle of a shotgun assault with a simple can of Pepper Spray.
I sure hope that this is one detail that the reporters and eye-witnesses have NOT gotten wrong.
nolabear
(41,928 posts)HE WAS STOPPED WHEN HE HAD TO RELOAD. The kid didn't have a gun, and he didn't have a giant magazine full of bullets.
malaise
(268,618 posts)EFUGGING nough!
Give thanks for that pepper spray
suffragette
(12,232 posts)Too many lost to too much violence.
alp227
(32,000 posts)Let me try to name the shooting incidents within the past 6 or so months:
- the Navy yard shooting
- Fort Hood
- Santa Barbara
- LAX
- the Jewish Community Center near Kansas City
- Arapahoe High School
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,677 posts)No one deserves this shit.
niyad
(112,999 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)No more fucking gunz!!! Enough already!!!
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)It's the price we pay for guns in a free society.
nolabear
(41,928 posts)rafeh1
(385 posts)according to the gun nutters there would be less dead when armed kids were all doing counterfire in a closed building with no one knowing who is good guy and who is bad..