Florida State College reports shooting on campus

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Source: MSN

The university said on its Twitter feed the shooting occurred in a parking lot on its Palm Bay campus in Cocoa, Florida. The campus is currently on lockdown.


MIAMI — Eastern Florida State College said on Thursday that a shooting had been reported on its campus on Florida's east coast.

The university said on its Twitter feed the shooting occurred in a parking lot on its Palm Bay campus in Cocoa, Florida.

"Campus is locked down and people are asked to stay inside with doors locked," the college said.


Read more: http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/florida-state-college-reports-shooting-on-campus

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And the beat goes on.

[TexasTowelie]

1. Does another shooting qualify as late breaking news?

[sked14]

3. As often as this is happening,

probably not, but, what the hell, may as well post it here.

[HockeyMom]

2. MORE guns are the solution!!!!!

Right. Maybe they need to issue every student a gun with their enrollment????? NRA would just love that!!

[valerief]

7. Right. Why pay for birth control when there are so many guns? Gungeoneer logic. nt

[onehandle]

4. Guns are part of the anchor pulling America to the bottom. nt

[valerief]

6. Florida. Ground standers. They drink their coffee out of these.

http://www.amazon.com/Big-Mouth-Toys-The-Gun/dp/B004N016CO

[sked14]

8. Wow, that's pretty wild.

I kinda like this one.

[alp227]

9. Headline is sorta ambiguous. This isn't the home of the National Champion football team.

Florida State University is in the state capital Tallahassee. This story is about Eastern Florida State College in Cocoa about 40 miles east of Orlando.

The Orlando Sentinel reports: "Two men apparently came on campus and attacked a man in the parking lot. After the assault, the victim went to their car, grabbed a gun and shot one of his attackers," sourcing the Palm Bay chief of police. Florida Today, based in Melbourne also has more coverage.

[sked14]

10. So this is possibly a case of self defense?

[alp227]

11. It doesn't read like a "heat of the moment" shooting.

Rather, it seems like what Marissa Alexander went to jail for because the victim escaped, grabbed a weapon, then attacked.

[sked14]

13. You're right,

if the attack was over and the 2 were leaving, he went to his car and got his gun then shot them, I don't see how this is self defense, but, this is FL.

[X_Digger]

14. Which means that the story will be conveniently forgotten.

http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20140130/BREAKINGNEWS/140130012/Lockdown-lifted-after-shooting-EFSC-Palm-Bay-campus?nclick_check=1

According to Palm Bay Police Spokeswoman Yvonne Martinez, two men were beating up a third in one of the school's parking lots.

The man who was being beaten retreated to his car, where he grabbed a gun. According to witnesses, he fired his gun, wounding one person, as he was being beaten.

In the parking lot, a pool cue snapped in half lay about 50 feet from a red car with its engine still running.

The shooting comes about six weeks after a state appeals court ruled that students attending public universities can keep weapons in their cars while on campus, according to Reuters.

eta: added bolding

[sked14]

15. So they were still beating on him,

if the facts hold out, then this is a clear case of self defense.

[X_Digger]

17. As you can see, once this looked like self-defense, the story dropped like a stone.

Typical for DU.

[sked14]

18. I wonder why that is?

[warrant46]

20. A drug deal gone bad

[Dopers_Greed]

12. Responsible gun owners

[hack89]

24. It was self defense. nt

[cpwm17]

16. It was in Palm Bay, Florida

Cocoa is north of Palm Bay

Here's the local paper's report, with video:

http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20140130/BREAKINGNEWS/140130012/Shooting-EFSC-Palm-Bay-campus-may-been-self-defense?nclick_check=1

Perhaps it was self defense.

[Aristus]

19. It must be Friday...

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21. Except this was posted on Thursday.

[Aristus]

22. There was probably a shooting then, too.

The Daily Bodycount...

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23. There was, the article I posted happened yesterday, but it turns out it was

self defense on a college campus.